432-01158 (Environment)
Original language of petition: English
PETITION TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
Whereas:
- Indigenous peoples have rights and title to their traditional territories and have been stewards of these lands since time immemorial;
- the climate crisis requires action by all levels of government and industry;
- old-growth forests provide immeasurable benefits, including carbon sequestration, biodiversity, culture, recreation, education, food and more;
- valley-bottom high productivity old-growth ecosystems in British Columbia are endangered;
- of the remaining 2.7% of original high productivity old-growth forests in British Columbia, 75% are still slated to be logged;
- only 9% of the original 360,000 hectares of valley-bottom high productivity old-growth on Vancouver Island remain today; only 2.6% of those forests are protected in parks;
- the last unprotected intact old-growth valley on Southern Vancouver Island, Fairy Creek, is slated for logging, along with the upper Walbran Valley and other remaining pockets of old growth;
- most Canadians support sustainable harvesting of second and third growth forests, but do not support logging old-growth trees or destroying their surrounding ecosystems.
We, the undersigned citizens and residents of Canada call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Work with the provinces and First Nations to immediately halt logging of endangered old-growth ecosystems;
2. Fund the long-term protection of old-growth ecosystems as a priority for Canada's climate action plan and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples;
3. Support value-added forestry initiatives in partnership with First Nations to ensure Canada's forestry industry is sustainable, and based on the harvesting of second and third growth forests;
4. Ban the export of raw logs and maximize resource use for local jobs;
5. Ban the use of whole trees for wood pellet biofuel production.
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Paul Manly
(Nanaimo—Ladysmith)
June 18, 2021 (Petition No. 432-01158)
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432-01038 | Jenica Atwin | June 3, 2021 | 27 |
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Total signatures | 715 |