Clear-cut trees are visible across the heavily forested mountainside that makes up the Fairy Creek injunction area on Vancouver Island.
To Megan Einarson, who was arrested in the recent Fairy Creek protests and has returned to join a new group in opposition to old growth logging, it’s difficult to see how many trees have been felled since the protests.
“There are people that will still mourn the trees that they sat with that are now gone because they are logged,” Einarson said.
The latest group to protest in the injunction area, called Savage Patch, says they are an Indigenous-led movement focused on Indigenous sovereignty and the protection of old growth forests.
On Aug. 15,
→ Continue reading at CBC News