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New Environmental Report Calls for BC Timber Sales Reforms
BRITISH COLUMBIA, JUL 24 – A Nelson-based report calls for BC Timber Sales to adopt environmental stewardship, citing 24 allegations including logging ancient forests and harming biodiversity, with support from 13 volunteer groups.
- Calling for an environmental stewardship mandate, the report from Save What's Left urges the provincial government to revamp BC Timber Sales, citing harmful logging practices.
- Drawing on reviews by forest professionals and biologists, Joe Karthein's report follows a January expert panel appointment to examine B.C. Timber Sales operations.
- Listing 24 environmental and management concerns, supported by field verification and satellite imagery, the report outlines allegations supported by field verification, satellite time-lapse imagery, and conversations with forest professionals and forest workers.
- Prominent environmentalist David Suzuki urged leaders to show courage, saying `What we need now is courage by leaders to walk that path.` after the report lists 13 volunteer groups calling for reforms.
- The report’s recommendations include shifting BC Timber Sales’s mandate to require binding protection of biodiversity, water and cultural values, aiming to improve environmental stewardship.
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