Despite overwhelming public support for protecting old-growth forests, areas including a forest in Nanoose, are still under threat of logging.

“In the last year, over 31,000 people added their voices to the call to end old-growth logging,” said Tria Donaldson, Wilderness Committee’s Vancouver Island outreach coordinator.

The committee collected 2,500 petitions in April calling for a stop to old-growth logging.

The Island has less then one per cent of its original old-growth trees still standing.