About the campaign This is one of the Wilderness Committee’s longest lasting campaigns. With 75% of Vancouver Island’s old-growth rainforest already cut, forestry companies continue to push for more logging operations in this rare large remnant of BC’s ancient coastal rainforests. In the early 1990s, environmental groups such as the Wilderness Committee, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, [...] Read more »
THE HEART OF THE BOREAL
Stretching from the east side of Manitoba’s Lake Winnipeg far into the province of Ontario is one of the greatest natural areas left on earth. The Heart of the Boreal is a vast wilderness filled with jack pine-covered granite ridges, black spruce and tamarack lowlands, and more lakes than you can imagine. Over sixty First [...] Read more »
BC’s Rainshadow Wilderness
The campaign to protect the wild lands in the Lillooet Region. The Wilderness Committee currently works together with the St’at’imc and the Tsilhqot’in Nation on protection of wilderness and strengthening of native practices and culture in the Cayoosh, Bendor, and South Chilcotin mountain ranges. Often referred to as the Rainshadow Wilderness, the Lands of the [...] Read more »
2010 ANNUAL REPORT
Founded in 1980 by a small band of citizens determined to preserve wild Canada, the Wilderness Committee has grown to tens of thousands of members and supporters with offices in Vancouver, Victoria, Winnipeg and Toronto. Since those early days, we’ve had many successes that have helped gain protection for over 50 major wilderness areas, including [...] Read more »
BC’S PROVINCIAL PARKS
People come from around the world to visit BC’s Provincial Parks because they offer something in short supply in the rest of the world: a clean, natural and unspoiled environment. This makes BC both a desirable place to visit and a desirable place to live. BC’s parks are an important part of BC’s environmental legacy [...] Read more »
WILD SALMON
Wild Pacific salmon – Sockeye, Coho, Chinook, Chum and Pink – are the lifeblood of the West Coast, supporting Orcas, Grizzlies, other wildlife, forests, First Nations, coastal communities and tourism. Wild salmon are in trouble. Effects from over-fishing, salmon farming, climate change, habitat alteration by logging, mining, agriculture and dams have extinguished over 100 stocks [...] Read more »
STOP OLD GROWTH LOGGING
British Columbia, Canada is home to some of the Earth’s most spectacular, ancient temperate forests, including the world’s largest Douglas fir tree (the Red Creek Fir) and second-largest western red cedar tree (the Cheewhat Cedar). These old-growth forests are diverse: from wet rainforests with towering, mossy Sitka spruce trees and gnarly red cedars with trunks [...] Read more »
BC’S GREAT NORTHERN SALMON RIVERS
Some of the largest tracts of intact wilderness in North America are found in northwest British Columbia. Four wild river watersheds — the Skeena, Nass, Stikine and Taku — support healthy wild salmon runs, globally significant populations of caribou, mountain goats, stone sheep, moose, grizzlies and wolves. Proposed industrial development in these watersheds – from [...] Read more »
OIL TANKER BAN – LETS KEEP CANADA’S WEST COAST OIL SPILL FREE
Tar Sands Oil Shipments Threaten Canada’s West Coast and Beyond On the west coast of Canada, we live in one of the most naturally beautiful regions on Earth, blessed with a productive marine environment, rich forests, and citizens who have fought for generations to preserve our coastal beauty and abundance. All this is now at [...] Read more »
BC’S RIVERS AT RISK
Rainbow, Burnt Bridge, Chipmunk, Tzoonie, Volcano and Statlu are not just colourful names – they are some of the many wild creeks and rivers found throughout British Columbia. They are also just a few of the 600 water bodies that have been staked by private power corporations over the last seven years in BC. The [...] Read more »
