Vogue – Inside the Fight for Old-Growth Forests at British Columbia’s Fairy Creek

July 3, 2021
Vogue feature on Fairy Creek Blockade - the last stand for old-growth forests.

Big Lonely Doug

Last Stand for Old-Growth

Grandma Rose at Waterfall Camp, Fairy Creek Blockade

Rainbow Eyes at Fairy Creek HQ

Beneath the towering yellow cedars and Douglas firs of a west coast Canadian rainforest, police and protesters are battling over the future of one of the last unprotected old-growth watersheds on southern Vancouver Island.


The protests are local, but ramifications are global as biodiversity and climate change are inextricably linked with ancient trees. Unlike new tree plantations, old-growth forests in coastal British Columbia, with trees ranging from 250 to 2,000 years old, provide habitat for rare and endangered species and absorb climate-warming carbon dioxide.

Photography by Annie Forrest

Words by Judith Lavoie

Read the full story on Vogue.com.

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