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Jeremy Hainsworth, Glacier Media
Victoria will take a holistic approach to old-growth forest protection, including protection of nine areas province-wide totalling almost 353,000 hectares, as it responds to a review announced a year ago. Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Doug Donaldson said Victoria will government will work with Indigenous leaders and organizations, labour, industry and environmental groups to work together in conserving biodiversity while supporting jobs and communities. The commitment comes on the release of an independent panel report, A New Future for Old Forests, which made 14 recommendations, including: • declaring conservation of ecosystem health and biodiversity of British Columbia’s forests as an overarching priority and enact legislation that legally establishes this priority for all sectors; • adopting a three-zone forest management framework to guide forest planning and decision-making. • adopting a more inclusive and stable governance model that gives local communities and stakeholders a greater role in forest management decisions that affect them.
• defer development in old forests where ecosystems are at very high and near-term risk of irreversible biodiversity loss until a new strategy is implemented; • bringing old forests management into compliance with existing provincial targets and guidelines for maintaining biological diversity; • establishing and funding a more robust monitoring and evaluation system for updating management of old forests. • updating targets for retention and management of old and ancient forest. • improving mapping and classification of old forests to recognize multiple values, and; • supporting forest sector workers and communities as they adapt to changes resulting from a new forest management system Some recommendations fall short of an earlier ‘what we heard’ report which noted suggestions for: • an immediate moratorium on old growth logging in the province; • an immediate halt on logging in old-growth ‘hotspots’ while Victoria develops its strategy; • a moratorium on logging old growth ecosystems, especially on Vancouver Island, in southwestern British Columbia, and in the Interior wet belt, until an inventory has been made of the remaining old growth forest, and new regulations devised; INDUSTRY & TRADE | WINTER 2020
