{"id":72299,"date":"2021-05-26T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=72299"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:55","slug":"good-and-kelsey-is-there-an-800-year-old-tree-in-your-toilet-paper-the-case-for-an-old-growth-free-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/05\/good-and-kelsey-is-there-an-800-year-old-tree-in-your-toilet-paper-the-case-for-an-old-growth-free-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD and KELSEY: Is there an 800-year-old tree in your toilet paper? The case for an old-growth-free logo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Good, Associate Professor of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University; and Elin Kelsey, adjunct faculty at the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, had a piece recently published in The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/em> advocating for a logo to be placed on products to let Canadians know they do not contain any materials from old-growth forests.<\/p>\n

They write:<\/p>\n

\u201cRecent anti-logging protests to save the vulnerable, biodiverse old-growth Fairy Creek Watershed on Vancouver Island came as a surprise to many across Canada who assumed old growth was already protected in B.C. After all, the NDP won re-election in the province last October with a platform that included promising to protect more old growth in accordance with a major report released in September titled A New Future For Old Forests.<\/em><\/p>\n

The report delineates that Canada\u2019s old-growth and primary forests are under threat, and other studies corroborate such findings. For example, a 2020 study\u00a0<\/i>by Karen Price, Rachel Holt and Dave Daust points to the need for \u201cimmediate action\u201d to save B.C.\u2019s old-growth forests. The Sierra Club highlights the report\u2019s findings, pointing out \u201chow shockingly little is left of B.C.\u2019s most endangered old-growth forests, in particular those with very big trees. … Only about eight per cent (approximately 415,000 hectares) of the original extent of these original forests with big trees remain as old-growth today across the province.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The definition of an old-growth forest is complex and context-specific. In British Columbia, for example, the term \u201cold growth\u201d is officially defined by the age of trees in a forest using specific thresholds (often over 250 years on the coast and 140 years in the interior). The Convention of Biological Diversity offers that a primary forest is \u201ca forest that has never been logged and has developed following natural disturbances and under natural processes, regardless of its age.\u201d B.C.\u2019s old-growth forests have been nearly eliminated and its primary forests are disappearing at an \u201cextraordinary rate,\u201d according to the World Resources Institute.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Continue reading the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennifer,\u00a0Good, Associate Professor of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University; and Elin Kelsey, adjunct faculty at the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, had a piece recently published in The Globe and Mail advocating for a logo to be placed on products to let Canadians know they do not contain any materials from old-growth forests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[153,522,3655,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72306,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72299\/revisions\/72306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}