Activism intensifying over B.C.'s logging industry despite government-promised overhaul

People are risking arrest at a blockade preventing logging on Vancouver Island, protesters are marching through cities demanding the conservation of old-growth trees and hundreds have attended meetings and forums on the future of logging in British Columbia.

It’s all being done to push the province to move faster on a promise it made during the 2017 election to overhaul logging practices.

For people who have long watched the debate over cutting down trees to support the province’s economy versus conserving them