B.C. says Great Bear Rainforest act comes out of groups learning to co-exist
VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark says her government’s protection of the Great Bear Rainforest is British Columbia’s gift to the world.
The province introduced legislation Tuesday that protects most of the globe’s largest intact temperate rainforest on B.C.’s rugged central coast from logging.
“We all knew that yes today would mean something incredible for the next 100 years, for the next 500 years, not just for B.C., but the entire world,” Clark said at a ceremony after the protection law was introduced in the legislature.
The Great Bear Rainforest Forest Management Act protects 85 per cent of the 6.4-million-hectare area that stretches from the Discovery Islands on Vancouver Island northwards to Alaska.