https://thenarwhal.ca Deep Dives, Cold Facts, & Pointed Commentary en-US Copyright 2026 The Narwhal hourly 1 https://thenarwhal.ca/rare-canadian-rainforest-at-risk-logging/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:33:09 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=155372 Forestry companies hold licences to log in Canada’s inland temperate rainforest, home to endangered caribou and rare lichens. That makes a proposal for a new provincial park more urgent than ever Sarah Cox In-Depth On the ground B.C. biodiversity caribou Endangered Species inland temperate rainforest Scientist Toby Spribille looks for lichens in the inland temperate rainforest https://thenarwhal.ca/endangered-bats-fake-old-growth-trees/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=97090 Northern myotis bats weigh little more than a loonie and have long, dark ears. Females take turns looking after each other’s pups under the bark of old trees — just the sort disappearing in a rare B.C. rainforest Sarah Cox On the ground B.C. biodiversity Endangered Species forestry inland temperate rainforest old-growth forest Photo: Louis Bockner / The Narwhal Biologist Cori Lausen looks up at a fake old-growth tree she and her team made for endangered bats https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-endangered-mountain-caribou-habitat-logging/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=95716 The ’boo shack, as locals in southeast British Columbia call it, is the centre of operations for what could become a multimillion-dollar effort to rescue a caribou herd on the verge of local extinction. But low numbers and a dwindling habitat — ramped up by clearcut logging — means the herd’s survival is far from guaranteed Sarah Cox On the ground B.C. biodiversity caribou Endangered Species forestry inland temperate rainforest Illustration: Shawn Parkinson / The Narwhal An illustration of a caribou calf from the endangered Central Selkirk deep-snow caribou herd https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-rainforest-old-growth-detectives/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=93883 When conservationist Eddie Petryshen learned BC Timber Sales was auctioning off cutblocks in a globally rare inland temperate rainforest that also provides core habitat for endangered caribou, he took to the woods in search of ancient trees — and The Narwhal tagged along Sarah Cox On the ground Photo Essay B.C. caribou climate change Endangered Species inland temperate rainforest logging old-growth forest wildlife Photo: Bailey Repp / Wildsight https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-rainforest-protected-area-conservancy/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 01:11:08 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=68973 The move will permanently protect at-risk species and biodiversity — including rare lichens, grizzly bear and wolverine — in an area Premier David Eby describes as ‘one of B.C.’s greatest treasures’ Sarah Cox News B.C. biodiversity inland temperate rainforest old-growth forest protected areas Photo: Craig Pettitt / Valhalla Wilderness Society Incomappleux Valley https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-prince-george-old-growth-maps/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:59:20 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=68329 Mapped areas follow watchdog investigation that found biodiversity may be at ‘high risk’ in Prince George timber area Ainslie Cruickshank News B.C. biodiversity caribou Endangered Species forestry inland temperate rainforest wildlife Photo: Taylor Roades / The Narwhal The Goat River and Primary/Old-Growth Forest The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-deep-snow-caribou-vanish/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 15:06:36 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=65798 The B.C. government spends millions on extreme measures — like wolf culls and maternity pens — to support these mountain-loving herds found nowhere else in the world. Yet such efforts fail to offset the habitat destruction at the root of their disappearance Sarah Cox In-Depth B.C. biodiversity caribou Endangered Species forestry inland temperate rainforest wildlife Photo: David Moskowitz The endangered Columbia North deep-snow caribou herd relies on B.C.'s disappearing inland temperate rainforest https://thenarwhal.ca/biodiversity-crisis-lichens-bc/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:55:00 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=65129 Lichens are a canary in the coal mine for the inland temperate rainforest and their demise is sounding the alarm about widespread biodiversity loss Sarah Cox News B.C. biodiversity COP15 Endangered Species inland temperate rainforest old-growth forest wildlife Photo: Eddie Petryshen / Wildsight lichens in the inland temperate rainforest https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-logging-endangered-caribou-habitat/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:56:01 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=64575 The B.C. government has spent millions in efforts to save the imperilled herd, even as it prepares to log its critical habitat Sarah Cox News B.C. BC Timber Sales biodiversity caribou COP15 Endangered Species inland temperate rainforest logging old-growth forest wildlife Photo: Wildsight / Eddie Petryshen Spraypaint marks an old-growth cedar tree that will be measured to determine logging volumes https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-old-growth-inland-rainforest-study-2021/ Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:42:41 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=32099 The province’s unique inland temperate rainforest is home to endangered species and cedar trees more than 1,000 years old — but its old-growth ecosystems could be destroyed in less than a decade if logging continues at its current pace Sarah Cox News B.C. Endangered Species forestry inland temperate rainforest logging old-growth forest Photo: Taylor Roades / The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca/raush-valley-bc-logging-forest/ Wed, 05 May 2021 17:40:30 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=28183 Proposal to log ‘heartbreakingly beautiful’ Raush Valley — home to trees up to 1,000 years old — would require building a road through a protected area Sarah Cox News B.C. forestry inland temperate rainforest logging old-growth forest protected areas JD Cardinal