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Freedom of Information Request Reveals Biased Government Process for the Proposed Zincton Resort

VWS submitted a Freedom of Information Act request pertaining to government and proponent communications about the proposed Zincton Mountain Resort. The information revealed a biased process by the government body tasked with regulating the proposed development. Read more...
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A Convenient Crisis Threatens BC’s Park Legacy

British Columbia’s logging industry has pushed itself to the brink by over-logging. The province has become a sea of clearcuts, many of which were once critical ecosystems including wet old growth forest. Now, amidst increased drying and wildfires, the province’s last old growth forests, parks and protected areas are being threatened by industrial interests under the guise of wildfire mitigation. Read more...
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BC Rejection of an Environmental Assessment of the Proposed Zincton Resort Is Disgraceful

WEST KOOTENAY – The BC government has disgracefully refused to provide a provincial Environmental Assessment (EA) of the proposed Zincton All-Seasons Resort, despite extensive public requests for one. An application for an EA was sent to the Minister of Environment and the Minister of Tourism in 2023 by the environmental group Wildsight, and the Sinixt Confederacy...

Current Campaigns

Wildlife Conservation

MOUNTAIN CARIBOU – The battle to save the critically endangered Deep-snow Mountain Caribou.

LARGE CARNIVORES – VWS opposes wolf culls and maternity pens for caribou cows, and focuses on the real problem: habitat destruction.

WESTERN TOADS – A project to protect biodiversity by reducing human-caused mortality of threatened western toads.

GRIZZLY BEARS – A welcome but fragile end to grizzly bear hunting.

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Inland Temperate Rainforest Park Proposals

VWS has achieved decades of research in the Inland Temperate Rainforest region of British Columbia. The result is a portfolio of three proposals for new parks that would protect high-biodiversity old-growth Inland Temperate Rainforest and many species at risk. WATCH THE SHORT FILM, Primeval: Enter the Incomappleux.

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Grow BC Parks Campaign

Fifty-eight scientists, organizations, businesses and advocates across British Columbia are calling for a major expansion of BC’s Parks and Protected Areas to preserve biodiversity and take meaningful action on climate change.

The Grow BC Parks Coalition is petitioning the Provincial and First Nation governments of British Columbia to immediately protect BC’s remaining intact natural areas.

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Chilcotin Wildlife Protection

Tsilquot’in, Friends of Nemaiah Valley, VWS and others are working to protect BC’s last 1,000 wild horses from government culls and other threats generated by the cattle industry. These are the last of tens of thousands of wild horses that once ran free in the interior BC grassland belt. The last wild horse cull was in 1988. Lacking any legislative protection, they are constantly under threat of indiscriminate shooting and government culls.

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History of Valhalla Wilderness Society

Valhalla Provincial Park stretches from the far shore of Slocan Lake in British Columbia, to the mountaintops.

Valhalla Provincial Park was created in 1983 after eight years of hard-won battle by the Valhalla Wilderness Society (VWS). VWS went on to successfully spearhead campaigns for the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary, Goat Range Provincial Park, and the Spirit Bear Conservancies on Princess Royal Island. The charitable organization also played one of the key roles in the protection of South Moresby National Park Reserve. Its Endangered Wilderness Map of 1988 initiated the movement to double BC’s park system to 12% of the province. VWS has led park campaigns that now protect over 560,000 hectares. The work resulted in numerous national and international conservation awards received by Chairperson Colleen McCrory.

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The Inland Temperate Rainforest is the traditional territory
of many First Nations including in the south area, the Sinixt.

Valhalla Wilderness Society

Champion of conservation since 1975. We are a BC-Based wilderness conservation organization, specializing in the creation of parks and protected areas for wildlife and ecosystems.

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