When you think of Canada, do you think of vast untouched wilderness areas and large quantities of old growth forest ?

Think again. In the southern reaches of the territory where trees get the largest, live the longest and where biodiversity is greatest, less than 1% of the original primary forests are left intact. And much of that 1% is comprised of fragmented primary old growth forest that does not contain the full spectrum of biodiversity it should.

While primary forest is abundant in the far north, and boreal forest is beautiful, ecologically significant and should be protected, forests in the north are made up of smaller trees that do not live as long and the shorter growing season does not support as diverse an array of biodiversity as the old growth forests of southern Canada.

There are only a handful of entire valleys that have never seen industrial exploitation (and have their full spectrum of original biodiversity and ancient trees intact) along the southern ancient forest bioregions of Canada.

The Fairy Creek watershed is one of them.

For those that missed it the article linked below is part one of a 3 part series that documents the expedition my family and I embarked on to get into the heart of that never industrially pillaged ancient rainforest valley on Vancouver Island and document the ancient community of life there.

Please share to help raise awareness about the rarity of places like Fairy Creek as the Canadian government may decide to allow corporations to pillage the valley as early as September if we do not raise enough awareness and put pressure on our corrupt government via shaming them into living up to all their greenwashing slogans.

And perhaps more important than shaming (or at least forcing the government to pretend to have shame and care via increasing public awareness of their duplicitous ancient forest clearcutting racketeering) is sharing this in the hopes of inspiring others to visit that valley like I have and to fall in love with that place and nurture a deep reverence and respect for living cathedrals such as Fairy Creek, because in the end it is love, and not fear that compels us into the most powerful forms of sustained action.

Thanks in advance for reading and sharing.