Avatar Depression Cure - Appreciating and Defending Planet Earth!

Avatar Depression Cure - Appreciating and Defending Planet Earth! To cure your Post-Avatar Depression, please follow this simple, yet effective 3 step program:
1. Learn to appreciate Earth and its natural beauty.
2.

Do something to protect it.
3. Get others to do the same. This should cure your depression.

NOW HIRING in VICTORIA! The Ancient Forest Alliance is hiring door canvassers for part-time or full-time work (Mon to Fr...
02/23/2015

NOW HIRING in VICTORIA! The Ancient Forest Alliance is hiring door canvassers for part-time or full-time work (Mon to Fri 5-9:30pm) in Victoria. Join a team of environmentally-conscious people to help raise funds and environmental awareness about BC’s endangered old-growth forests and forestry jobs!
To apply, please contact Amanda Evans at: [email protected]
http://www.ancientforestalliance.org/news-item.php?ID=864

The Ancient Forest Alliance is hiring door canvassers IN VICTORIA for part-time or full-time work (Mon to Fri, 5-9:30pm). Join a team of environmentally-conscious people to help raise funds and environmental awareness about BC's endangered old-growth forests and forestry jobs! To apply contact Amand…

Here's a new Alberni Valley Times article about the old-growth forests at McLaughlin Ridge, which conservationists are p...
02/13/2015

Here's a new Alberni Valley Times article about the old-growth forests at McLaughlin Ridge, which conservationists are pushing the BC government to protect:
As logging continues in McLaughlin Ridge, the B.C. Teachers Federation voted to ask Island Timberlands to sell the forestry land it owns in the steeply sloped area. The motion passed Jan. 31 at a BCTF assembly of district representatives, urging the forestry company to sell McLaughlin Ridge to "an organization(s) that will conserve and preserve forest lands."
The old growth forest is within the China Creek watershed, the drinking water source for more than 20,000 people in Port Alberni and Beaver Creek. Ken Zydyk, president of the Alberni Teachers Union, said the request for Island Timberlands to divest the land was first approved by public educators in Port Alberni.
"There are many teachers concerned about the current practices of Island Timberlands," he said.
"Teachers are uncomfortable that we put some of our salary towards our pension, it's like a savings account that we access later," Zydyk said, adding that the concern was if teachers' funds are "being used in a socially responsible way."
The forestry company has met with municipal officials on almost a monthly basis since city council voted last August to join a lobbying effort to halt harvesting in McLaughlin Ridge.
This push is being led by the Watershed Forest Alliance, a local environmental group that fears the forestry activity is unsustainable, harming McLaughlin Ridge's wildlife and compromising Port Alberni's source of drinking water.
http://www.avtimes.net/news/local-news/company-pressured-to-halt-harvesting-of-old-growth-within-city-s-watershed-1.1759064

Some Island Timberlands' stakeholders are adding pressure to the forestry company over the harvesting of old growth within Port Alberni's watershed.As logging continues in McLaughlin Ridge near . . .

Calling Vancouver tree film lovers – TOMORROW (Friday Jan.30), Climbing Arborist (www.climbingarborist.com) will host a ...
01/30/2015

Calling Vancouver tree film lovers – TOMORROW (Friday Jan.30), Climbing Arborist (www.climbingarborist.com) will host a screening of tree-climbing film ‘The Mat Fernandez Project’ - which is being entered into the Taranaki Tree Film Festival - alongside Darryl Augustine’s (Roadside Films) documentary about the Ancient Forest Alliance. The screening will start at 7:30pm at Yagger’s Downtown Restaurant and Sports Bar (433 W Pender St.) in Vancouver. If you don’t yet have your 2015 AFA calendar, they will be available to purchase there as well. Great thanks to Climbing Arborist and the Mat Fernandez Project for supporting the AFA through this great event celebrating both tree-climbing and old-growth forest protection!

offers a free comprehensible video library of knot tying, tree climbing and rigging techniques (basic and advanced).

Mountain Life Magazine has just done a little piece on the Ancient Forest Alliance and filmmaker Darryl Augustine (of Ro...
01/28/2015

Mountain Life Magazine has just done a little piece on the Ancient Forest Alliance and filmmaker Darryl Augustine (of Roadside Films - see https://www.facebook.com/roadsidefilmsbc) about his experience working on a film about us.
You can see Darryl's great new film at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg9dcc2WPjk

http://www.mountainlifemag.ca/2015/01/saving-giants-ancient-forest-alliance/

TJ Watt's fellow Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) activist Ken Wu later dubbed the area 'Avatar Grove' to bring attention to the unprotected trees. After an intensive two-year public awareness campaign led by the AFA, the BC government in 2012 declared the Grove an Old-Growth Management area, off-limit…

Here is the obituary of Dr. Al Carder, who passed away at 104 years in age recently. Dr. Carder leaves an impressive sci...
01/21/2015

Here is the obituary of Dr. Al Carder, who passed away at 104 years in age recently. Dr. Carder leaves an impressive scientific and conservation legacy, having spent decades researching and promoting the conservation of BC's biggest old-growth trees years before the rise of the modern ancient forest movement. Dr. Carder recently received the Forest Sustainability Award from the Ancient Forest Alliance (see the photo and media release at: http://www.ancientforestalliance.org/news-item.php?ID=849)
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timescolonist/obituary.aspx?n=alfred-cecil-carder&pid=173870047

Read the Obituary and view the Guest Book, leave condolences or send flowers. | CARDER, Alfred Cecil 1910 - 2014 We celebrate the life of our beloved father & grandfather who died peacefully on Winter Solstice, December 21, 2014 shortly before his 105th Christmas. Al was born

TODAY is the LAST DAY to purchase AFA holiday gifts and donate IN-PERSON in 2014! Drop by the AFA’s sales booths in VIC...
12/23/2014

TODAY is the LAST DAY to purchase AFA holiday gifts and donate IN-PERSON in 2014! Drop by the AFA’s sales booths in VICTORIA and VANCOUVER to buy our new 2015 Calendars, Cards, Posters, Certificates, Shirts, Stickers, Prints, and other items, and to donate! In VICTORIA come to our office space in the Dock ( #303-3 Fan Tan Alley, access via elevator in the courtyard) today between 11am-5pm. In VANCOUVER drop by our table at Trees Organic Coffee House (Yaletown location – 1391 Richards St.) between 12-6pm. You can also still donate and purchase merchandise online, by phone, or by email – however, gifts shipped at this late date will not arrive before Dec 25. For more details, see
http://www.ancientforestalliance.org/news-item.php?ID=850

This Holiday Season, VISIT our AFA SALES BOOTHS, open until December 23, to get our new CALENDARS (2015), CARDS, POSTERS, CERTIFICATES (Adopt-an-Ancient Tree or Grove, Avatar Boardwalk), SHIRTS, STICKERS, and other items (or you can order online at www.ancientforestalliance.org/store.php): In VICTOR…

“The time to act is now” was the message delivered by outgoing Shawnigan Lake director Bruce Fraser on protecting the Al...
12/10/2014

“The time to act is now” was the message delivered by outgoing Shawnigan Lake director Bruce Fraser on protecting the Alberni Valley’s watershed. Bruce delivered that message to a packed Search and Rescue Hall that included local residents, Island Timberlands representatives and city officials during a watershed forum organized by the Watershed-Forest Alliance and Alberni-Pacific Rim MLA Scott Fraser. http://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/284680241.html

Former Shawnigan Lake director delivered his message to a packed room.

Thank you to Trees Organic Coffee House (treescoffee.com) for hosting the AFA's Holiday Sales Booth in Vancouver this se...
12/09/2014

Thank you to Trees Organic Coffee House (treescoffee.com) for hosting the AFA's Holiday Sales Booth in Vancouver this season! Come visit us at 1391 Richards St. (Yaletown location) Tues 12-6 and Sat 3-6 from now until Dec 23rd to purchase 2015 calendars, cards and more! Thanks also to Eternal Abundance (eternalabundance.ca) and Banyen Books & Sound (www.banyen.com) for selling AFA merchandise at their stores to help raise funds for the protection of BC's endangered old-growth forests and to ensure sustainable forestry in the province!

Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House serves freshly roasted organic fair trade coffee and arguably the best cheesecake at 5 Vancouver area locations

"The 104-year-old Carder is considered the oldest forest conservationist in the province. His relationship with giant tr...
12/08/2014

"The 104-year-old Carder is considered the oldest forest conservationist in the province. His relationship with giant trees began in 1917, when he was seven and he helped his father measure a tall tree near their home in the lower Fraser Valley...Along with his books, Carder is perhaps best known for his work to highlight the Red Creek Fir, the world’s largest known Douglas-fir tree, located in the San Juan Valley near Port Renfrew. Since then, the town has become known as the Tall Trees Capital of Canada, with tourists from around the world coming to visit the Red Creek Fir, nearby Avatar Grove and the Walbran and Carmanah valleys."

http://www.timescolonist.com/our-community-a-love-of-big-trees-rewarded-1.1653607

Dr. Al Carder was recently awarded the 2014 Forest Sustainability Award from the Ancient Forest Alliance for his decades of service to document, research and promote the conservation of old-growth . . .

Today is ! Please consider supporting the Ancient Forest Alliance. We are a successful grassroots organization that rel...
12/03/2014

Today is ! Please consider supporting the Ancient Forest Alliance. We are a successful grassroots organization that relies on individual donors and contributions from local businesses and organizations within the community. We ensure that your contribution goes the furthest in building a most powerful campaign and movement to save BC's ancient forests and forestry jobs! Donations can be made online, by phone, or by mail. Thank you!! https://www.ancientforestalliance.org/donations.php

The Ancient Forest Alliance is a non-profit environmental group in Victoria, BC, Canada; your donation can really help.

The Province: “B.C.’s oldest tree hugger has been publicly recognized for decades of work protecting the province’s old-...
11/28/2014

The Province: “B.C.’s oldest tree hugger has been publicly recognized for decades of work protecting the province’s old-growth trees. Dr. Al Carder, 104, received the Forest Sustainablity Award from the Ancient Forest Alliance on Tuesday for his work documenting, researching and promoting some of Canada’s most magnificent trees.” http://www.theprovince.com/tree+hugger+gets+some+love+protecting+growth+trees/10419618/story.html

B.C.’s oldest tree hugger has been publicly recognized for decades of work protecting the province’s old-growth trees. Dr. Al Carder, 104, received the Forest Sustainablity Award from the Ancient Forest Alliance on Tuesday for his work documenting, researching and promoting some of Canad…

Huffington Post blog post by the AFA’s TJ Watt about the need to protect endangered old-growth in Vancouver Island’s Cen...
11/23/2014

Huffington Post blog post by the AFA’s TJ Watt about the need to protect endangered old-growth in Vancouver Island’s Central Walbran and Upper Walbran Valley: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tj-watt/not-all-is-well-bc-woods_b_6201668.html

It might surprise you to learn that there is a place just a few hours from Victoria, B.C. that is home to Canada's version of the American redwoods. And it may come as more of surprise to learn that its days could now be numbered unless something is ...

Times Colonist: Conservationists are concerned a pristine area of old-growth forest near Carmanah Walbran Provincial Par...
11/22/2014

Times Colonist: Conservationists are concerned a pristine area of old-growth forest near Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park is under threat after spotting logging and surveying tape in the area. “This is a nationally significant area with some of Canada’s grandest forests,” said Ken Wu from the Ancient Forest Alliance. http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/taped-trees-in-walbran-valley-a-red-flag-for-environmental-group-1.1602233

Conservationists are concerned a pristine area of old-growth forest near Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park is under threat after spotting logging and surveying tape in the area. “This is a . . .

Vancouver Observer: “Because of the ideal growing conditions in the region, Canada’s temperate rainforests reach their m...
11/21/2014

Vancouver Observer: “Because of the ideal growing conditions in the region, Canada’s temperate rainforests reach their most magnificent proportions in the Walbran and Carmanah Valleys,” stated Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner and photographer TJ Watt. "It's our version of America's redwoods. Unfortunately, the upper half of the Walbran Valley remains open for logging. The area currently threatened, as well as the Castle Grove, constitute the most ecologically significant and intact sections left in the Upper Walbran Valley. They must be protected." http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/canada-s-grandest-old-growth-rainforest-risk-logging-survey-tape-discovered

One of Canada’s most iconic and grandest old-growth temperate rainforests is under threat as signs of potential logging have been discovered in the heart of the Upper Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island.Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) activists TJ Watt and Jackie Korn recently documented survey tape ma…

11/14/2014

Inspire Hair Design will be donating $1 from every hair service rendered this November to our campaign to protect BC's endangered old-growth ecosystems! Thanks to Inspire Hair Design for being inspired to help the forests! http://inspirehairdesign.ca/

Our mission is to bring a little inspiration to all those around us. We strive to maintain integrity in all we do. Making daily decisions to look after our planet, our people and communities. Using eco-friendly products and design, hiring educated stylist, carrying certified organic products and amm…

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