Join us for an informative conversation about old growth forests, treasured for their historical, as well as their environmental significance. In this era of climate catastrophe, these forests are essential to control flooding, to minimize habitat loss and to reduce species extinction. Polling by the Sierra Club indicates that 92% of British Colombians support government action to protect these ancient trees. They need us to speak for them.
Please join the zoom meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4969423617
Here is the report on Old Forests which the government approved as policy, which their Fairy Creek decisions are contradicting. The cover letter (p.2) puts it in the larger context of the collective response to the climate crisis. The executive summary (only 3 pages: 14-16) gives the broad context and priorities (of which the preservation of existing old growth is very high). Please view the document here.
Our presenters are Jane Welton and Elizabeth Noble!
About Jane Welton
Jane Welton had the good fortune to be born in BC, the most biodiverse province in Canada, into an outdoorsy family. As a child, she got to know trees intimately because she loved to climb them. Now she works to protect them as leader of the Forestry SubCommittee of the Climate Action Research Team of Greater Victoria Acting Together.
Jane began her activism as a young teen on a junior high student council that changed the rules so that girls no longer had to wear dresses to public school! (That’s how old she is!) Her favorite form of activism is through music. She has sung with Aya, Musaic and Resistance Rising, groups formed to sing the world into change. She also put a lot of effort into raising the next generation of activists and is proud to say: “Mission accomplished.”
Jane has worked for women’s rights, peace, the environment, labor rights, indigenous rights, LGBTQ2S+ rights and more. She is grateful for the vision of people like Naomi Klein who have woven all these issues together as climate justice.
Jane is a reader and highly recommends 2 books to save the planet from climate change—Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth and A Good War by Seth Klein.
Jane is a Co-Lead with GVAT’s Climate Action Research Team.
Letter Template for Fairy Creek Situation To Be Sent from Individuals and Organizations “We write on behalf of (name of your member organization) to express our concern about the increasingly racialized violence directed towards Indigenous people in the Walbran/Fairy Creek encampments. To our knowledge these encampments are not blockades and should not be subject to any Court injunctions. Click here for a link for the template and addresses.
Our Land Acknowledgement Kathryn Lacerte is the Director of Education for the Moose Hide Campaign. The Moose Hide Campaign is a grassroots, Indigenous organization calling on men and boys, along with all Canadians, to stand up against violence towards women and children, especially Indigenous women and children. This is a local initiative that has gone national and is now in its tenth year. They have distributed over 2.5 million moose hide pins across Canada with the intention of starting conversations and shining a light into the shadows of this prevalent issue.