Author: Wildsight

Guest Blog: Ancient cedar stands at risk in Shuswap’s own Fairy Creek

November 26, 2021 by Wildsight

The article below was originally published in the Salmon Arm Observer and Shuswap Passion. By Jim Cooperman Thanks to the work of a forest campaigner, Eddie Petryshen, from the Kootenay environmental group Wildsight, we are now aware of the plans…

Bannock Point Begins to Bloom

November 23, 2021 by Wildsight

An innovative new project is putting food into the forest and fighting the risk of forest fires at the same time. Wildfires blanketed BC this summer, with climate projections showing that, if business as usual continues, temperatures will continue to…

Reflections on attending COP26

November 18, 2021 by Wildsight

When we launched our Youth Climate Corps (YCC) program in 2020, our hope was never to just provide youth with a few new job skills. The goal has always been to empower young adults to pursue climate justice, to join…

Sustainability in the West Kootenay: Panel presentation

November 17, 2021 by Wildsight

Youth Climate Corps West Kootenay What can our community do to respond to a changing climate? How is climate change impacting our health? Our food security? Our forests? How can we help? To hear answers to these questions and more…

Act now: Support a brighter future for BC’s old growth

November 9, 2021 by Wildsight

The BC government recently announced plans to defer logging of 2.6 million hectares of high-risk old growth forests pending the outcome of consultations with Indigenous Nations. The deferrals, based on the priority areas identified by the independent Old…

Province announces next steps for old growth protections

November 2, 2021 by Wildsight

Today the provincial government took steps towards protecting BC's irreplaceable old growth forests, but the work is not done yet. An Old Growth Technical Review Panel found that nearly 70 percent of BC’s old growth forests are unprotected…

Zincton is back: Big resort, big losses for wildlife

October 27, 2021 by Wildsight

The proposed Zincton Resort is a massive ski resort development that would cover 55 square kilometres of the Central Selkirk mountains between Kaslo and New Denver. The proposed resort passed the first stage of review from the BC Mountain Resorts…

Salvage logging rules must change to protect ecosystem health

October 27, 2021 by Wildsight

B.C. needs to drastically change post fire logging and support ecosystem health By Alan Duffy (BC Backcountry Hunters and Anglers), John Bergenske (Wildsight), and Jim Turner (United Bowhunters of BC) As autumn rains extinguish the last of this summer…

Working together for wildlife

October 25, 2021 by Wildsight

British Columbia’s biodiversity is globally significant: we are home to the broadest diversity of wildlife and ecosystems of any province or territory in Canada, including some species not found anywhere else on earth.

Defend our rivers from coal mine pollution

September 22, 2021 by Wildsight

Coal mines in the BC Rockies send toxic selenium pollution downstream that puts fish in danger, not just in BC, but in Lake Koocanusa and the Kootenai River for hundreds of kilometres through Montana and Idaho — and back into BC…