Factbox-Fairy Creek blockades: the dispute over logging Canada's old-growth forests


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  • Sunday, 06 Jun 2021

A woman plays a trumpet while lying on the road as Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers assemble during an operation to arrest protesters manning the Waterfall camp blockade against old growth timber logging in the Fairy Creek area of Vancouver Island, near Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Canada May 24, 2021. Picture taken May 24, 2021. REUTERS/Jen Osborne

(Reuters) - Since August 2020 protesters have been blockading logging roads near the Fairy Creek drainage on western Vancouver Island. The dispute has reignited a debate on whether there should be a moratorium on logging Canada's ancient forests.

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