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The Future of BC’s Ancient Forests

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The Future of BC’s Ancient Forests

Ancient Forest Alliance works to protect BC’s endangered old-growth forests and to ensure a sustainable, second-growth forest industry. Public education is an important part of AFA’s strategy to inform and mobilize the public to take action to protect BC’s endangered old-growth forests. We raise large-scale public awareness by having a constant presence in the media, social media, and often organize fun and informative slideshow presentations, events and rallies to raise awareness and funds for the cause.

https://www.ancientforestalliance.org

 
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Event Summary

 

The Future of BC’s Ancient Forests will delve into the pressing social, cultural, political, and environmental issues that impact – and are impacted by – the continued loss of BC’s rare and endangered old-growth forests.

The evening will include presentations by the AFA’s TJ Watt and Andrea Inness outlining the urgent need to protect BC’s old-growth forests and current opportunities for policy change. You’ll also hear the perspectives of guest speakers from across the ancient forest conservation movement.

A Q&A panel discussion will give both in-person and online audiences a unique opportunity to pose questions to our expert panel about BC’s ancient forests, their future, and what it will take to protect them. Please send your questions in advance to info@ancientforestalliance.org. We will also accept questions from both the in-person and livestream audiences throughout the evening.

Join us for a critical conversation on how, together, we can shape the future of BC’s ancient forests while supporting the species, communities, and First Nations cultures that depend on them.


SPEAKERS

Tyson Atleo: Economic Development Lead, The Nature Conservancy Representative for the Ahousaht Hereditary Chiefs

Tyson Atleo is a hereditary chief-in-line of the Ahousaht Nation. As the Economic Development Lead for the The Nature Conservancy’s Emerald Edge program, Tyson works to advance community-focused conservation and development strategies in the coastal temperate rainforest and other geographies in Canada, the USA, and with colleagues in other countries around the world. For his Nation, Tyson served a four year term as the youngest elected Councilor in Ahousaht history, and led the development of and continues to serve as the vice-president for Ahousaht’s stewardship and sustainable economic development corporation, the Maaqutusiis Hahoulthee Stewardship Society (MHSS). Tyson also worked for many years with the Government of Canada and as a consultant focused on Indigenous community development and engagement, is a successful entrepreneur in the housing sector, and co-founded The Gathering Voices Society, a charity focused on advancing innovative Indigenous led solutions to conservation and development challenges.

Andy MacKinnon, Forest Ecologist

Andy is a forest ecologist who lives in Metchosin British Columbia Canada. Since December 2014 he’s also served as a Councillor in Metchosin, and in spring 2017 he was the Green Party candidate in the riding of Esquimalt – Metchosin. Until his retirement in 2015, he worked for the BC Forest Service for three decades, mostly on BC’s coast, where he was responsible for ecosystem classification and mapping and a program of forest ecology research focused on old growth structure and composition, effects of climate change, and BC’s native plants and fungi. Andy has also been involved in defining and implementing ecosystem-based management in Haida Gwaii and the Great Bear Rainforest. He has co-taught rainforest ecology field courses in Bamfield and Tofino (for the University of Victoria) and Haida Gwaii (for UBC). Andy is co-author of six best-selling books about plants of western North America. He’s an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, and a Professional Forester and Professional Biologist in BC. Andy was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree by Simon Fraser University in 2013. He’s President of the South Vancouver Island Mycological Society, and enjoys drinking good whisky and playing mandolin.

Andrea Inness, AFA Campaigner

Originally from southern Vancouver and Thetis Islands, with a passion for wild places and the creatures in them, Andrea works to protect our most outstanding and endangered landscapes through collaboration, communication, and advocacy. Before joining the AncientForest Alliance in 2017, Andrea worked at state and local governments in Brisbane, Australia, conducting community engagement and consultation activities for public works projects. She has also worked and volunteered with several national and international environmental non-profits, including the Australian Marine Conservation Society, supporting a national campaign to protect the iconic Great Barrier Reef; The Nature Conservancy’s Asia Pacific Region; and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s BC Chapter, where she currently sits on the Board of Directors. When not on her laptop, Andrea can often be found exploring coastal temperate rainforests, the Southern Strait of Georgia, or the North Shore Mountains near her home in Vancouver.

TJ Watt – AFA Co-Founder, Campaigner, and Photographer

Combining his passion for conservation with professional photography, TJ works to shed light on BC’s endangered ancient forests in an effort to help see them saved. An avid ‘big-tree hunter’, you’ll find him driving rough backroads and exploring remote regions of Vancouver Island in search of the last old-growth giants.

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THE 2020 VISION PROJECT
20 local non-profits. 20 broadcasts. 20 months. 1 gift.

2020 Vision is a project designed to amplify & forward the deep work being done by the non-profit & charities right here in our hometown of Victoria.

We’re gifting 20 live broadcast events, over 20 months, to 20 local community-based organizations in order to help them reach more people, scale their message, capture some beautiful video, host an event, and build an expanded awareness of the cause they champion! 2020 Vision is our way of saying THANK YOU for all that you’re doing to make the world a more beautiful, just, compassionate, balanced and sustainable world.

To learn more about the 2020 Vision project and see the other events that our local grant recipients have and are producing, click here!

Our Venue


 
Sunset Labs is an intimate waterfront multi-purpose venue located downtown Victoria, Canada. This beautiful, high-tech venue hosts live broadcasts, meetings & workshops, dance nights, film screenings, live rock shows, fashion events, book fairs and everything else the community comes up with. For more information, please visit our website.

 

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