It's the carbon equivalent of removing about 470,000 gas-burning cars off the road for one year.
B.C.’s canopy is set to become a bit greener in the years ahead as the province and feds have inked an almost $80-million deal to plant 37 million new trees.
Under the current agreement, which is jointly funded by the province, reforestation efforts will be concentrated in areas ravaged by wildfires and pests in recent years. Under the 2BT program, 11.3 million trees have already been planted in B.C. said Bruce Ralston, minister of forests, and since 2017, 1.6 billion more trees have been planted through provincial efforts over and above the trees logging companies are required to replant as part of their harvesting agreements with the province.A warming climate has fueled wildfires and introduced conditions that allow pests to thrive where they once would have been halted in the winter months, he added.
“There was a time when the Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia saw our mandate as just dealing with wild birds and now we understand from an Indigenous knowledge perspective that wild birds live in ecosystems and those ecosystems have been stewarded for millennia by local First Nations communities,” he said.
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