New online 'Forest Eye' will daylight old-growth logging in B.C.

Written By Peter Allan

Forest Eye, an online mapping tool, will help the public to monitor old growth logging in B.C. which often takes place in remote locations. File photo of clearcut on Edinburgh Mountain near Port Renfrew by TJ Watt / Ancient Forest Alliance.

By Rochelle Baker

There will soon be no way for old-growth logging to go undetected in B.C.

An online tracking system developed by an international environmental group goes live today. It will enable the public to monitor where old growth is being logged and is designed to hold the province accountable for promises to reform forestry, said project lead Angeline Robertson, a senior investigative researcher with Stand.earth.

Forest Eye — an online mapping system and database developed by Stand.earth — employs satellite imagery, remote sensing technology and government data to detect and alert users to logging and road-building in the most at-risk old-growth forests in the province, Robertson said.

The mapped logging alerts will pinpoint old-growth logging two to four weeks after it begins, identifying where, when and how much was cut and by which private forestry company, Robertson said.

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