British Columbia is logging its last old growth. Protesters are sleeping in the road to stop it

Protesters in British Columbia are blocking logging operations to protect remaining old-growth forests on Vancouver Island, where trees up to a millennium old are being cut for high-value timber. First Nations elder Bill Jones and forest defenders staged a nighttime roadblock, causing a logging truck to retreat. The region's old-growth rainforests, critical for carbon storage, are among the rarest ecosystems, with only 20% of productive forests remaining.