by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Earth Keepers Education, FOCS in the Media
When we are asked “paper or plastic” that choice involves poisoning oceans with oil-based plastics or devastating forests. We have a better choice. It’s time to move beyond single use paper and plastics to reusable and zero-water systems — and make throwaway go...
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
A scientific review of the world’s oceans published in the scientific journal Nature concluded that the world’s oceans can be restored within a generation. Through rampant overfishing, pollution and coastal destruction, humanity has inflicted severe damage on the...
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Ancient Rainforest Protection, First Nations, Indigenous Solidarity
In the weeks before the BC Government’s announcement, Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones released an official letter of invitation to Indigenous and non-Indigenous forest defenders to unite on his territory to defend the ancestral rainforests of his family — the...
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Ancient Rainforest Protection, First Nations, General News, Indigenous Solidarity
Last fall, prior to the election, the BC Government announced logging would be deferred [paused] for over 350,000 hectares of forests provincially, including 260,000 hectares in Clayoquot Sound. The logging deferral, a first in colonial history, signaled that the BC...
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Ancient Rainforest Protection, First Nations
Since re-election of the BC NDP in 2020, the war in the woods has reignited. What’s happening at the Fairy Creek Blockades is near deja vu of the Clayoquot Blockades that Friends of Clayoquot Sound organized in 1993, where over 900 people were arrested protecting the...
by dewolfe001 | Jun 14, 2021 | Ancient Rainforest Protection
Thanks to all the speakers, performers, and participants at the Protect Old Growth Forests solidarity rally!! Clayoquot Sound has a strong legacy and community of forest defenders! On Sunday, June 13, 2021, about 150 people came together in Tofino for a time of...
