Dear Friends,
As you may have seen and heard in the media this week, the ancient forests of Clayoquot Sound are facing an urgent threat. Please read below to see how you can help.
(Apologies for duplicate postings)
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TAKE ACTION NOW TO SAVE ANCIENT TEMPERATE RAINFOREST IN CLAYOQUOT SOUND, BRITISH COLUMBIA
STOP INTERFOR'S LOGGING OF INTACT WILDERNESS VALLEYS IN CLAYOQUOT BIOSPHERE RESERVE
When intact and ancient wilderness is destroyed, it is lost forever.
Interfor (International Forest Products) is currently road-building and
cutting old-growth forest in an intact valley of Clayoquot Sound, on
Vancouver Island, BC. Intact temperate rainforest is globally rare and ecologically precious. Intact valleys are the reason Clayoquot Sound was designated a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve.
WRITE TO:
Ric Slaco, Interfor Vice President and Chief Forester at ric_slaco@interfor.com
Tell him to stop logging intact valleys in Clayoquot Sound. Tell him you will not buy Interfor or Sauder wood because it is derived from ancient forest destruction.
LET'S EXERT PRESSURE TO STOP INTERFOR!
KEEP CLAYOQUOT WILD!
Friends of Clayoquot Sound
Visit our website for more ways you can help.
www.focs.ca
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Your donations will help with this fight to protect our ancient forests.
Visit www.focs.ca and click on our DONATE NOW button to give online with your credit card. You can also send your donation to Friends of Clayoquot Sound, Box 489 Tofino BC V0R 2Z0.
Your help will make a difference! Thank you!
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Media Release For Immediate Release Monday February 7, 2005
CLAYOQUOT PEACE THREATENED:
INTERFOR BUILDING ROAD INTO INTACT VALLEY
Tofino, BC: Friends of Clayoquot Sound today discovered that International
Forest Products (Interfor) is building a logging road into a rare intact
valley north of Tofino. This marks the first time in 14 years that an intact
wilderness valley in Clayoquot Sound has been impacted by road-building and
falling of ancient temperate rainforest.
“Interfor’s road-building in intact rainforest valleys is an ecological
crime, and we are again hearing that local people will not stand idly by and
allow this to happen,” said Diego A. Garcia, forest campaigner for Friends
of Clayoquot Sound. “Undisturbed valleys are exceedingly rare on Vancouver
Island, where 75% of the original productive forest has been logged. We are
calling on Interfor to immediately cease all forestry activity in all of
Clayoquot’s intact valleys.”
The intact valley being logged and roaded is called Hesquiat Lake Creek, and
is part of the largest intact forest remaining on Vancouver Island. Hesquiat
Lake Creek is one of a handful of undisturbed, or intact, valleys that was
recommended for protection by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in 1996,
and that received recognition from First Nations and environmentalists as
being “Eehmiis” - meaning very, very precious.
“Interfor’s logging of intact valleys in Clayoquot Sound is a losing
proposition. Interfor is losing money in Clayoquot, paying miniscule
stumpage taxes ($0.25 per cubic metre), and has just permanently laid off
all but 2 staff in its local office,” said Forest Watch Coordinator Maryjka
Mychajlowycz. “At the same time, Interfor is causing the loss of globally
rare and ecologically precious intact valleys. Where’s the sense in that?”
In 2000, Clayoquot Sound was designated a Biosphere Reserve by the United
Nations’ Environmental, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in
recognition of the global ecological and cultural importance of the region.
“The ecological importance of Clayoquot Sound is critically linked to the
pristine valleys,” said Garcia. “It makes no sense to designate a United
Nations’ Biosphere Reserve and then log away the keystone features that make
Clayoquot Sound so globally important.”
Interfor also intends to log other intact valleys in Clayoquot Sound, with
plans approved for logging in Satchie Creek, two watersheds near Sulphur
Pass, as well as the current activities in Hesquiat Lake Creek.
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Visit us on the web at www.focs.ca
Friends of Clayoquot Sound Box 489 Tofino, BC V0R 2Z0
Tel: 250.725.4218 Fax: 250-725-2527 info@focs.ca
As you may have seen and heard in the media this week, the ancient forests of Clayoquot Sound are facing an urgent threat. Please read below to see how you can help.
(Apologies for duplicate postings)
***********************************************************
TAKE ACTION NOW TO SAVE ANCIENT TEMPERATE RAINFOREST IN CLAYOQUOT SOUND, BRITISH COLUMBIA
STOP INTERFOR'S LOGGING OF INTACT WILDERNESS VALLEYS IN CLAYOQUOT BIOSPHERE RESERVE
When intact and ancient wilderness is destroyed, it is lost forever.
Interfor (International Forest Products) is currently road-building and
cutting old-growth forest in an intact valley of Clayoquot Sound, on
Vancouver Island, BC. Intact temperate rainforest is globally rare and ecologically precious. Intact valleys are the reason Clayoquot Sound was designated a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve.
WRITE TO:
Ric Slaco, Interfor Vice President and Chief Forester at ric_slaco@interfor.com
Tell him to stop logging intact valleys in Clayoquot Sound. Tell him you will not buy Interfor or Sauder wood because it is derived from ancient forest destruction.
LET'S EXERT PRESSURE TO STOP INTERFOR!
KEEP CLAYOQUOT WILD!
Friends of Clayoquot Sound
Visit our website for more ways you can help.
www.focs.ca
***********************************************************
Your donations will help with this fight to protect our ancient forests.
Visit www.focs.ca and click on our DONATE NOW button to give online with your credit card. You can also send your donation to Friends of Clayoquot Sound, Box 489 Tofino BC V0R 2Z0.
Your help will make a difference! Thank you!
**********************************************************
Media Release For Immediate Release Monday February 7, 2005
CLAYOQUOT PEACE THREATENED:
INTERFOR BUILDING ROAD INTO INTACT VALLEY
Tofino, BC: Friends of Clayoquot Sound today discovered that International
Forest Products (Interfor) is building a logging road into a rare intact
valley north of Tofino. This marks the first time in 14 years that an intact
wilderness valley in Clayoquot Sound has been impacted by road-building and
falling of ancient temperate rainforest.
“Interfor’s road-building in intact rainforest valleys is an ecological
crime, and we are again hearing that local people will not stand idly by and
allow this to happen,” said Diego A. Garcia, forest campaigner for Friends
of Clayoquot Sound. “Undisturbed valleys are exceedingly rare on Vancouver
Island, where 75% of the original productive forest has been logged. We are
calling on Interfor to immediately cease all forestry activity in all of
Clayoquot’s intact valleys.”
The intact valley being logged and roaded is called Hesquiat Lake Creek, and
is part of the largest intact forest remaining on Vancouver Island. Hesquiat
Lake Creek is one of a handful of undisturbed, or intact, valleys that was
recommended for protection by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in 1996,
and that received recognition from First Nations and environmentalists as
being “Eehmiis” - meaning very, very precious.
“Interfor’s logging of intact valleys in Clayoquot Sound is a losing
proposition. Interfor is losing money in Clayoquot, paying miniscule
stumpage taxes ($0.25 per cubic metre), and has just permanently laid off
all but 2 staff in its local office,” said Forest Watch Coordinator Maryjka
Mychajlowycz. “At the same time, Interfor is causing the loss of globally
rare and ecologically precious intact valleys. Where’s the sense in that?”
In 2000, Clayoquot Sound was designated a Biosphere Reserve by the United
Nations’ Environmental, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in
recognition of the global ecological and cultural importance of the region.
“The ecological importance of Clayoquot Sound is critically linked to the
pristine valleys,” said Garcia. “It makes no sense to designate a United
Nations’ Biosphere Reserve and then log away the keystone features that make
Clayoquot Sound so globally important.”
Interfor also intends to log other intact valleys in Clayoquot Sound, with
plans approved for logging in Satchie Creek, two watersheds near Sulphur
Pass, as well as the current activities in Hesquiat Lake Creek.
***********************************************************************
Visit us on the web at www.focs.ca
Friends of Clayoquot Sound Box 489 Tofino, BC V0R 2Z0
Tel: 250.725.4218 Fax: 250-725-2527 info@focs.ca
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