Jens Wieting

Jens works on protecting B.C.’s spectacular rainforest and fighting global warming. He focuses on developing and implementing the protection agreements for the Great Bear Rainforest, highlighting the importance of B.C.’s forests and urging the province to avoid fossil fuel expansion projects like pipelines, LNG terminals and coal mines.

Growing up on the coast of the North Sea in West Germany, Jens became passionate about nature at a young age. After spending some time in the Amazon rainforest between high school and university, he got hooked on rainforests and concerned about their fate. He studied land use planning at the Technische Universitaet Berlin, where he also worked for a land use planning office.

Prior to coming to Canada, Jens worked as Tropical Forest Campaigner for German environmental organization Robin Wood, helping protect the rainforest of Indonesia. He also worked for a German development cooperation in Nicaragua to help conservation planning in Biosphere Reserve Bosawas, the largest tropical rainforest region of Central America. Jens has written numerous articles for Canadian and German newspapers about environmental issues.

Jens enjoys spending time with his family hiking and camping in the rainforest, mountains and on the coast. He is a passionate nature photographer, always ready to get muddy to take pictures of critters and giant trees of the rainforests he loves.