Timber!
On Friday, the B.C. government approved a permit for Teal-Jones Group, a forestry company, to begin logging an area of old-growth forest on Vancouver Island. Not everyone's happy.

 “This type of old-growth forest is simply too rare to destroy, and the fact that the government isn’t responding to this crisis is shameful,” said Torrance Coste of the Wilderness Committee in a release. It could be the beginning of a bigger conflict: “We don’t want this to go to a blockade," Coste said. "The provincial government has the ability to avoid that, and it’s time for them to step up—they need to rescind this permit and start engaging with the company, local First Nations and the public on alternatives.” The Wilderness Committee claims that less than 10 per cent of Vancouver Island's old-growth rainforest remains at lower elevations.

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