The BC provincial government has decided to have some discussions with BC’s First Nations before they stop to any logging operations that put some of the province’s old growth ecosystems at risk.
The government said in a statement earlier today that they had asked all 204 of BC’s First Nations for their opinion on the deferrals of logging operations that involve very big and very rare old growth trees that cover 26,000 square kilometres of forests.
The First Nations also need to decide within 30 days whether they support the deferrals or not.
Asking all of the First Nations for their thoughts on the logging is yet another step in BC’s attempt to protect the province’s oldest trees, along with the ecosystems that they live in.
BC’s minister of forests, lands, natural resource operations and rural development, Katrine Conroy, gave a statement of her own saying that the government is committed to partnering with First Nations to ensure that they get this process right.
Original story from CBC
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