Creatively United for the Planet | Elder Bill Jones Tells It Like It Is: First Nations Perspective on Resource Extraction & Fairy Creek @creativelyunited | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
Forest biodiversity is under intense threat in British Columbia. The equivalent of 32 soccer fields of old growth are logged every day. On Vancouver Island less than 3% of original old growth remains. Fairy Creek is ground zero for a public campaign to protect and preserve this biodiverse and vital old growth forest region in the San Juan Watershed on southwestern Vancouver Island near Port Renfrew.
Elder Bill Jones is a band member of the Pacheedaht First Nation in the area and a leading member of the Rainforest Flying Squad of protestors who are fighting for the survival of this sacred territory. In this video, he succinctly shares what is happening in his territories and to First Nations people worldwide and what we can do to change this paradigm and protect our planet from ecocide.
During Season 3 of Climate and the Artist Series, Creatively United hosted a webinar on forestry and biodiversity in partnership with Elder Bill Jones and Kathleen Code, Vice Chair of the Ecoforestry Institute Society which manages the Wildwood Sustainable Forest near Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Call for a New Forest Framework:
creativelyunited.org/a-call-for-a-new-forest-framework-in-british-columbia
Important Fairy Creek update from Kathleen Code:
creativelyunited.org/when-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest-the-ndp-government-hears-not-a-thing
Season 2 forestry & biodiversity webinar:
creativelyunited.org/biodiversity-matters-re-imagining-forest-management
Forest biodiversity is under intense threat in British Columbia. The equivalent of 32 soccer fields of old growth are logged every day. On Vancouver Island less than 3% of original old growth remains. Fairy Creek is ground zero for a public campaign to protect and preserve this biodiverse and vital old growth forest region in the San Juan Watershed on southwestern Vancouver Island near Port Renfrew.
Elder Bill Jones is a band member of the Pacheedaht First Nation in the area and a leading member of the Rainforest Flying Squad of protestors who are fighting for the survival of this sacred territory. In this video, he succinctly shares what is happening in his territories and to First Nations people worldwide and what we can do to change this paradigm and protect our planet from ecocide.
During Season 3 of Climate and the Artist Series, Creatively United hosted a webinar on forestry and biodiversity in partnership with Elder Bill Jones and Kathleen Code, Vice Chair of the Ecoforestry Institute Society which manages the Wildwood Sustainable Forest near Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Call for a New Forest Framework:
creativelyunited.org/a-call-for-a-new-forest-framework-in-british-columbia
Important Fairy Creek update from Kathleen Code:
creativelyunited.org/when-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest-the-ndp-government-hears-not-a-thing
Season 2 forestry & biodiversity webinar:
creativelyunited.org/biodiversity-matters-re-imagining-forest-management
