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By CKPG Today

Forestry

Conservation North demands action on biodiversity recommendations

Aug 23, 2022 | 7:28 AM

PRINCE GEORGE — Conservation North is demanding action from Victoria on recommendations made by the Forest Practices Board back in 2020.

The group says the province has done nothing to limit further destruction of wildlife habitat in the Prince George Timber Supply Area (TSA).

The board found that nature was at high risk because of industrial logging.

“It has been two years since the Forest Practices Board concluded that nature was at high-risk in the Prince George TSA because of industrial logging. Why is it taking so long for the BC government to act on the Board’s recommendations when these ecosystems are on the brink of collapse?” asks Conservation North’s Director Michelle Connolly.

“We are watching logging trucks fly down Highway 97 with eight spruce logs because the trees are so huge that’s all that will fit in the deck of the truck,” adds Asta Glembotzki of Conservation North.

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Conservation North says the Forestry Practices Board’s two recommendations to the province in the report – which have not yet been acted upon – were that they promptly map and protect old growth where it is most threatened by logging, and update the province’s biodiversity requirements for the region to reflect the latest science.