Fairy Creek: The Last Stand (Documentary Film)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Fairy Creek: The Last Stand (Documentary Film)
In less than 150 years, 97.3% of British Columbia's old growth forests have been logged. These ancient trees and their ecosystems have been lost forever. Fairy Creek (Ada'itsx), one of BC's last untouched old growth watersheds, lies on Southern Vancouver Island on the unceded territories of the Pacheedaht, Ditidaht and the Huu-ay-aht Nations. Despite Premier John Horgan's 2020 election promise to protect the remaining 2.7% of old growth forest, logging of Fairy Creek continues unabated. In August 2020, forest and land defenders began setting up blockades to prevent the destruction of this beautiful and fragile ecosystem. One year later, after mass civil action, over 500 arrests and intense public pressure, the conflict continues. This comprehensive and compelling documentary film sheds light on the issues around the logging and blockades, through conversations with Indigenous Elders, politicians, police, lawyers, front line activists, and many others.
Special thank you to all those who helped make this documentary possible!
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i love RCMP saying that they're an impartial force in the conflict performing their duty. police, you are citizens too, not sheep, so stop pretending like there's no right and wrong.
thank you for the film!
Glad to see so many people interviewed.
Yesterday, Thanksgiving and a day of sharing the bounty earned by our work and success in producing more than our needs demand, a friend took me to the Fairy Creek Blockade where we could distribute a contribution to the ongoing struggle to save the last stands of Old Growth trees in British Columbia. I was buoyed at first by observing the youthful exuberance and spirit of the protesters who were obviously there for the long haul, already making the Fairy Creek Blockade both the largest and longest act of civil resistance in Canadian history. What sunk in and stayed with me after we had left the encampment was the lack of more support that was forthcoming on such an auspicious day. The protesters were so grateful for our offerings that it led me to observe the lack of support the participants were receiving from other citizens who were sympathetic, but only passively so to this most worthy cause. If you see this please consider contributing groceries, warm dry clothing, rain gear, firewood, propane (the tanks in the photo are empty), and tarps, heavy duty plastic bags and other camp gear you can spare. Every time the RCMP raid this camp they destroy personal property and drain the resources that keep the protest alive.
Thank you Justin and David for capturing the importance of this crucial movement to help save the old growth forests at Fairy creek 🙏🏻 and thank you to the heroes taking a stand at Fairy Creek 💚
Thanks for sharing this story!!
What an incredibly well done doc. As someone from Ontario who is just finding out about this issue, these interviews are wonderfully conducted
Same from Ontario! Apparently its the biggest civil movement in "Canada" ever 💪💪💪
It's completely absurd that this is even happening, in this moment on earth, these end times. Thanks to everyone working to protect the forests, for all her creatures 💚
Please make the ten minute version of this that I can share with people who are on the fence about this issue
Yes, I would love to see that as well!
That's hilarious, that's like here in the UK, to get through to the thick people that have right wing populist opinions and voting patterns, you can't show them anything that involves engaging for anymore than about 10 mins. There are superb documentaries and news papers that cover these stories and expect you to analyse the information and come up with your own conclusions. They just can't do it, so your 10 min request is spot on, I suspect it wont work though!
What a beautiful spirit, incredible speaker and leader Bill Jones is. A true gem. I loved listening to his words. Like him, I also thought that government would play a role in resolving this. Instead the NDP and mainstream media have buried this,, or manipulated the story, so some folks mistakenly believe logging here has been deferred. Incredible and sad that defending public interests is falling to a few courageous citizens and community members, and lone voices in parliament(like Sonia and Adam). Thank you Justin and David for this documentary!!
Many thanks for this wonderful documentary.
Thank you for protecting this forest. The right side of history.. we may never truly know the world that we had the priveledge of growing up in. There are many secrets, worlds, and lives within the depths of the land, there is an abundance of west coast biodiversity which we cannot see anywhere else!
Great coverage of the situation packed into this documentary. ESPECIALLY MUST SEE 1:22:00 Re. John Horgan's longtime tidy close relationship with Teal Jones, the Steelworkers, and the BC forestry industry in general.
It had me weeping at times... so well done. Thank you for making this documentary. Save Fairy Creek !! The world needs these ancient giants. 🌲❤️
Once a resource is exploited there is no getting it back. Always a cry about jobs but in the end there will be no jobs or resource just an environmental catastrophe. Thanks for the video. The scary thing is this type of environmental degradation is happening everywhere in the world right now.
I feel very sad to see how the oldforest has been destroyed. I am a non Canadian but I support your fight which is also my fight as I was born in the Amazon rainforest. KEEP UP THE FIGHT. NEVER GIVE UP TO PROTECT THE GREEN TREES
Thank you for protecting these forest named Taiga, that goes from Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and to India. In Sweden and Finland, we are losing them as well to logging. Tourist who comes up to visit them are asking if a Chernobyl has happened there. Because these nature area, where old growth forest are supposed to be has been destroyed. Norway, Sweden and Finland, also have native people up north and there too, native peoples land are being stolen and destroyed. As the Amazons are reaching the tipping point and Taiga is being destroyed from Canada to Russia. What forest is going to be left, to suck up the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? After the lates UN report, they should drop all form of logging now.
I like how Sonia, the Green Party leader, explains how industry uses injunctions and the court system to meet their objectives. Meantime, government has within their power to defer logging in this area, or revoke the license. Sonia and Adam have been amazing. So grateful to them.
I agree wholeheartedly. Furstenau makes SUCH excellent points! If only Horgan and the NDP would follow her way of thinking.
the great undoing of the earth. hold strong free men and women who love this land.
It's friggin criminal cutting down old growth trees. If might be legal but it's immoral. I applaud those that defended our forests. Shame on the government.
Thank you for covering so many aspects of the issue. Thank you for all the courageous land protectors and Sonia and Paul as the featured politicians. These trees and forests are worth soooo much more standing!
Great job, David and Justin! This documentary is absolutely amazing! Well documented, with interesting facts from various experts and politicians. It was both fascinating as well as concerning to see that incredibly brave Forest Defenders, and so many citizens of the world, have to fight so hard to save this ancient natural resource that should never have been on the cut block to begin with! John Horgan made a promise at his snap election campaign to save the old growth. And then he fell back on his promise. I hope that Horgan changes his mind from supporting his 'friends' at Teal Jones to doing what is right and saving the last 2.7% of irreplaceable old growth on Vancouver Island.
Thank you for making and documenting this! Y'all are amazing!
Fantastic educational documentary. Thank you
Really interesting documentary! Wow! Certainly saving the remaining old growth forests ought to be a priority for BC. Tourism and trails can help to pay for the conservation.
It would have been interesting to hear from the folks who were protesting in favour of the loggers too. I was glad that you interviewed the police woman, but hearing from the loggers and band council as well would have been interesting too. Just to get a sense of why they are supporting this activity. It seems crazy to me that they would support it but still I would also like to hear their voices too
Excellent overview thank you for this
What Kim Murray said at around 16:55 is the key
The BBC in the UK have just done a story on this, that's how I've ended up here watching.
Excellent documentary!! Seriously well done.
Incredible documentary! The best I've ever seen about Fairy Creek. Thank you to everyone you captured here, such a wealth and diversity of knowledge. Sharing to everyone I can. 🥰
It breaks my heart how people cannot understand how incredibly important and incredibly special these ancient ecosystems are.
In today's world, with all the destruction and exploitation of our incredible lands you would think that the world would be up in arms about the last of our Ancient Relatives.
How can one argue that thousands of year old forests can be renewed in our lifetime.....and since they cannot they should stop immediately.
We can retrain people for work.
We can help the workers who currently have jobs in the industry to instead help save it, study it, and regrow what we can today!
So important!
what I don't get is the logging company doesn't care about the trees they just want the money for them so why can't we just pay for them and keep it as is. The provincial government could maybe pay one half and the other half from private donations. It cost the logging company a lot of money to cut and move to market. So the standing trees should be maybe 1/3 off the price. What say you folks?
Great work!!
The forester's should take seeds from the older trees to keep the genetics alive for replanting
Thank-you for this refreshing dose of reality
Great job, there is more then enough second growth to log instead.
Thank you!
RCMP used to protect corporate interests. 😳
Check the picture on my banner, captured a bunch of fairy's/Orbs at the creek that runs threw Royal Roads on Vancouver island back in 2009. At first, when I was looking threw the view finder of my 2005 digital camera was that there was dust on the lens, making sure the lens was clean I captured tons of Orbs/ fairies or Aliens what ever you need to call them. Then I read that the Digital Photo Industry wrote firmware into the imagining chips for new 2005 chips that removes what the industry denoted as anomies' artifacts, as it was the number one thing customer's complained about when using high end imaging sensor technology. As soon as a read that it was settled since Ancient times and then the white man wiped them out and built structure, my first thought was that the area was a disturbed ancient burial site. The only intel about the first nations people that lived in that area that I could find on the Royal Roads grounds is by the boat house. My bet is that where that picture was taken there are tons of Ancient bones just waiting to be discovered and its the site where they where slaughtered but i am sure its just another story where the Victor wrote the History of the area. The uncropped photo has a crazy amount of ORBS or spirits in it. Pretty funny what some people can capture. still cantfigure out how much i ambeingsensored.
Well done. Thank you!
Commenting for the algorithim gods, Thanks for the great doc!
We need simple rules everyone understands.
Don't cut down a tree over a century old.
Don't cut down trees where the forest is old.
Keep these simple promises. Then we can spend all our time saying why (or why not).
RUclips 'back away ' by Kansas lee and the Comfortably sauvage, to hear a great song about this.
Can someone please give an update on what has happened at Fairy Creek, now 3 years on.
How can we ask Brazil to stop cutting down the Amazon forest when in Canada we are still finishing off the job?
The Canadian government has no intention to stop cutting down old trees. Not ever. It's up to every Canadian to stop them.
Just think. If Fairy Creek got logged off. All hell will break loose.
never again!!!
Creepy how the Police Officer woman answers the questions by saying things like," I was at the briefing about how we treat people."
WHAT!!!!!!!
You have to be fricking "briefed" on how to treat people, specifically Indigenous!
Scary and awful how they cannot see what they have been programmed to do!
It's time for big changes.
Tired of our women going murdered and missing.
Our men dying in Police Custody.
Our brothers and sisters stuck in addictions.
Our lands being exploited and decimated.
What will we pass on to the Seven Generations were responsible for?!
Peace
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Drones. Can you film past the blockade with drones?
#DigitalsmokesignalsandDronetoBWild
well well well, the election is over and the NDP has no choice as a minority government but to align with the Green Party if it wants to remain in power. The Green Party can now demand on day one of this legislative session to have the minister of whatever put an immediate moratorium in place or it will not prop up this government. Oh how the tide has turned. Sonia are you already drafting your demands?
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Is it reservation land?
Yes, it is.
No, it’s unceded territory. So no treaty yet.
@@1springrobin I'm pretty sure there was a significant settlement in their favour a while back.
Just spike a hundred trees that'll stop them
I see both sides my family were
In forest
Imdistry it put food on my table, but do not protest if you have anything made of wood in ur home please im 47 so zero F s given but i get it goobal deforestation is horrible but what u wanna build residential
Homes with??? Mud and rocks???? Or synthetic lumber??? Made
Of plastics from oul and gas take your pic i dont like it either but like oil and gas unemployment here in alberta where do u put these displaced workers say oh sorry go work at tim hortons??? Give ur heads ashake!!!! U need wood and need oil and gas olay oretend all day but rainbows and unicorns dont pay my bills
Hemp.