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Japanese Television Documents Cathedral Grove Logging
by WCWC Media •
Tuesday February 12, 2008 at 01:57 PM
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia- Efforts to protect all of Cathedral Groves Ancient oldgrowth forest received a boost this weekend, as popular Japanese sport celebrity, Shusei Yamada and his film crew, from a major Japanese Television network, Nippon TV, arrived in Canada as part of the Biodiesel Challenge Project to drive around the world, without the use of fossil fuels, in a car powered by used kitchen oil ...
Press Release
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 for immediate release
Japanese Television Documents Cathedral Grove Logging
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia- Efforts to protect all of Cathedral Groves Ancient oldgrowth forest received a boost this weekend, as popular Japanese sport celebrity, Shusei Yamada and his film crew, from a major Japanese Television network, Nippon TV, arrived in Canada as part of the Biodiesel Challenge Project to drive around the world, without the use of fossil fuels, in a car powered by used kitchen oil.
Yamada and the film crew toured the oldgrowth forests in Cathedral Grove with Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Mid Island chairperson Annette Tanner in order to document the threats that the Grove and the few remaining Vancouver Island ancient forests are facing.
“It was an exciting time to be able to take this group through not only the Grove, but also through some of the important BC history that has led to the landuse, forestry, drinking water and conservation crisis for Vancouver Islands East Coast Communities,” explains Tanner. “This year being, the BC 150 celebration of British Columbias joining the Confederation of Canada, we were able to emphasize the history of this important event and its cost to our East Vancouver Island communities, as one-fifth of Vancouver Island was given away to Robert Dunsmuir for the building of the E&N Railroad to Campbell River. The railroad was never completed to Campbell River, nor was it to be operated in perpetuity, as many of the Canadian leaders up until the 1980s, believed,” stated Tanner.
“East Vancouver Islands present crisis in community forestry, wildlife and salmon conservation, recreation and drinking water protection lies in the fact that only 2 percent of the E & N land given to Dunsmuir, on east Vancouver Island has been protected as parks, while almost 98 percent of the area is open for industrial logging and development, Tanner continues.
“I am hopeful that the Japanese Documentary of this criminal lack of a protected area strategy for the endangered east coast of Vancouver island, especially the internationally famous Cathedral Grove, will help to encourage the creation of a protected area strategy for our remaining rare and endangered coastal Vancouver Island forests,” Tanner concludes.
Backgrounder:
Camera crew of Nippon Television
Junpei Yamaguchi (director)
Jun Kawakami (cameraman)
Tsutomu Yokose (cameraman)
Shusei Yamada (eco-car challenger)
Satori Murata (interpreter)
Tatsuya Ito (Shseis associate)
In regards to Shuseis around world project, this is the web site www.biodieselchallenge.com . Please click the English for your reference.
-Japanese Documentary in Cathedral Grove CHEK newsreport included below-
For more information or photos, contact Annette Tanner 250 752-6585
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You can watch the Japanese Documentary in Cathedral Grove
here.
THE STORY OF CATHEDRAL GROVE AND NEW EFFORTS TO PREVENT LOGGING NEAR THE PARK WILL SOON HIT THE AIRWAVES IN JAPAN.
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