Tag: Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots: Jasper National Park, Canada

The park includes ecozones including the Montane Forest, the Subalpine area, and alpine meadows.  It has some of the“ highest mountains of North America and some of the continent’s most diverse mosaics of ecosystem types, ranging from alpine tundra to dense conifer forests to dry sagebrush and grasslands.” [Commission for the Environment]. Montane, alpine, and […]

Biodiversity Hotspots: Fairy Creek, Canada

The Fairy Creek Old Growth forest on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (BC), Canada is one of many in BC where conflict between logging companies and Indigenous and “green” forest defenders has been intense.  The Green Party of Canada is very fortunate to have our Deputy Leader Rainbow Eyes (also known as Angela Davidson), an Indigenous […]