The province is in receipt of a letter from 223 international scientists.
It was organized by Dr. Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist at the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon.
He says BC’s temperate rainforests are globally rare, they offer habitat for many imperiled species and globally the vast majority of these unique rainforests has already been logged.
He was commenting after reports the ninth largest Douglas-fir in Canada was cut down near Port Alberni.
The tree was in an old-growth cut block auctioned off by the BC government.
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