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Welcome back to the Built Environment! Recently, Brenna travelled to Tofino, British Columbia, which is located on unceded Nuu-chah-nulth territory. A short water taxi ride away from the town known to many as Canada's surf capital is Clayoquot Sound, one of the world's richest and most unique ecosystems.
Today's episode features interviews with Torrance Coste, our friend from the Canadian Youth Delegation and the Vancouver Island Campaigner for the Wilderness Committee; and Bonny Glambeck, longtime Tofino-based activist and co-founder of the organization Clayoquot Action. Hint: he is wearing a red jacket] Brenna was fortunate to visit Torrance during a trail-building trip on Meares Island, where old growth cedar trees are years old or more.
In addition to being a ecologically vital, old-growth cedar trees are central to Nuu-chah-nulth culture and life. They launched a court case and secured an injunction that protected much of the Island from logging company MacMillan Bloedel. These areas are some of the last temperate rainforests and old growth left on the Island -- and they are at high risk for further logging and other resource extraction. Moreover, BC's old growth forests are a significant carbon sink; logging creates a positive feedback loop that perpetuates and accelerates climate change.
Brenna spoke to Bonny about her beginnings in activism -- she arrived in Tofino in time for the blockades against logging that were, at the time, the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. Bonny also describes Clayoquot Action's campaigns against open-net salmon farming and prospecting by Imperial Metals, the company responsible for the Mount Polley mine disaster [On August 4, , a tailings pond burst, releasing 4.
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