On the morning of November 25, the RCMP Critical Response Unit (CRU-BC) raided the forest protectors’ Cougar Camp in the Upper Walbran, which has been stopping logging in some of the last old growth forests left in B.C. since August 28, 2025.
Arrests have begun and there is a growing concern about the potential use of force and the treatment of those being detained or removed given that past RCMP CRU operations at forest protection camps in B.C. like Fairy Creek have included violent arrests and injuries from militarized police, and blocked access to legal observers and media.
This escalation is because the B.C. government failed to protect old growth and provide meaningful financing to support Indigenous-led conservation solutions and a transition for impacted communities, which First Nations have long been calling for.
RCMP records show that the B.C. spent over 10 million taxpayer dollars on police enforcement at Fairy Creek. Instead of continuing to spend millions on policing and giving away millions more each year in handouts to big logging corporations, B.C. should repay what's owed to Nations for decades of profiting from resource extraction on their stolen land, so they can choose forest protection as a viable economic pathway.
You can help by calling the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Krieger, Premier of B.C. Eby, and Minister of Forests Parmar to hold them accountable and tell them to stop sending police to arrest the people that are protecting the old growth forests that they failed to.
