In an emailed statement, the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resources and Rural Development said that it has “received several requests from First Nations regarding deferrals,” and that it is “committed to working with all Nations where there are old growth ecosystems at high and near-term risk of irreversible biodiversity loss.” Union of BC Indian Chiefs president Grand Chief Stewart Phillip questions this delay. “Their policy is talk and log,” Phillip says. “They’re willing to make grandiose public statements about deferrals, but the practice is that they are still out there actively logging old-growth forests.”

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