Organizations across B.C., including one in the Comox Valley, are pushing the province to deliver on a promise to create legislation that will protect biodiversity.

The promise stems from a five-year-old independent Old Growth Strategic Review Report, which was undertaken to inform policies around old growth forest management. The report made 14 different recommendations for the province to act on.

In a recently-made public letter from March to the minister of water, land and resource stewardship, 88 different organizations urged the province to move forward on implementing a biodiversity and ecosystem health framework and associated laws that would see the protection of vital natural areas in B.C. One of the 88 organizations that’s critical of the province’s lack of action in this area

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