$5,000 reward offered for information leading to convictions of tree poachers
Saturday, May 19, 2012
An environmental group is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the convictions of the people responsible for poaching an 800-year-old tree on Vancouver Island.
If you know who chopped down the red cedar in Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park, the Wilderness Committee and the BC Government Employees Union are ready to show you the money.
Gwen Barlee with the Wilderness Committee says, "We're doing that because we want someone to take this poaching seriously and the BC government isn't. We just have, again, 10 full-time park rangers year-round in British Columbia and over a thousand parks and protected areas."
The tree was damaged by poachers last year, and BC Parks staff eventually had to cut it down due to safety concerns.
