Stories

The grace of Interior forests: a conversation with Suzanne Simard
Join SCBC Lead Organizer, Flossie Baker, for a conversation with UBC Professor and ‘Finding the Mother Tree’ author, Suzanne Simard, on the wonders of Interior forests.

Step-by-step guide to hosting an event or dinner
A guide on hosting a fundraising event for Sierra Club BC. Together, we can protect the ecosystems that do so much to sustain us all.

Latest B.C. climate accountability report shows the province is set to miss key climate targets in 2025 and 2030
The report is also missing information about how the province plans to meet its longer-term targets, as well as those tied to emissions in the oil & gas sector.

Consider How We Paddle Together
An interactive 'tool' to help foster dialogue in bridging Indigenous and Western ways of knowing, based in Coast Salish protocol.

Independent audit finds legal gaps drive species in BC toward extinction
With the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) a month away, new report sounds the alarm on major provincial and federal failures in biodiversity protection in BC

Species-at-risk Recovery in BC: An Audit of Federal and Provincial Actions
This independent report highlights the legal gaps driving biodiversity loss and extinction in BC... and how a biodiversity law co-developed with Indigenous Nations can help fix this.

Sierra Club BC extremely concerned about lack of provincial transparency on old-growth promises
Yesterday’s B.C. government old-growth announcement didn’t offer an update on progress for deferrals across the 2.6 million hectares of the most at-risk old-growth forests in B.C. The last provincial update from April 2022 showed that only about 40% of these most at-risk stands had been deferred.

Learn to Draw: Black bears
Learn how to draw black bears with scientific illustrator Dr. Julius Csotonyi! Come get creative with us in this interactive lesson, fun for all ages!

Watch our 2022 Annual General Meeting!
Thanks to all our members for their ongoing support. We couldn't do this work without you.

BC closer to protecting critical bear den habitat
Sierra Club BC campaigner and bear biologist praise the tabling of bear den protection bill in B.C. Legislative Assembly.

Sierra Club BC and Ecojustice in court to call for accountability on climate plans from the B.C. government
Sierra Club BC, represented by Ecojustice, is suing the B.C. government for failing to report on whether its climate plans will achieve several key emissions targets.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
It’s up to all of us, settlers especially, to educate ourselves and speak out on Canada’s long (and ongoing) history of systematic oppression of Indigenous peoples. Sierra Club BC is asking our friends and supporters to engage with several resources.

Two years into Old-Growth Strategic Review mandate, BC is failing to deliver change
Two years after release of the Old-Growth Strategic Review panel report, environmental groups give B.C. government failing grades on its progress to protect threatened old-growth forests.