{"id":185599,"date":"2023-10-06T20:15:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T00:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=185599"},"modified":"2023-10-10T10:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:30:58","slug":"david-suzuki-speaks-at-house-of-ancestors-october-7th-in-prince-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/david-suzuki-speaks-at-house-of-ancestors-october-7th-in-prince-george\/","title":{"rendered":"David Suzuki Speaks at House of Ancestors October 7th in Prince George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidsuzuki.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Suzuki<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/fundraiser-featuring-david-suzuki-tickets-716549728527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scheduled<\/a> to speak in Prince George BC at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofancestors.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House of Ancestors<\/a> Saturday October 7th. He\u2019ll be speaking of his unorthodox life journey and relationship with ecology and conservation. The aim is raise funds for <a href=\"https:\/\/conservationnorth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conservation North<\/a>, a local group focused on environmental preservation and monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with CFUR from the road is representative and founding partner, Michelle Connolly.<\/p>\n<p>Although a lot of ecology is threatened, Connolly emphasizes, \u201cWe need to be extracting from the parts of the landscape that have already been industrially logged and not touching natural forests anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of Conservation North\u2019s efforts have gone to combining existing data with their own analysis and surveys, leading to their <a href=\"https:\/\/conservationnorth.org\/were-seeing-red\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seeing Red<\/a>\u00a0interactive map which highlights activity in the regions forest.<\/p>\n<p>Counter to the misconception that Conservation North is against all development of forestry products, a part of the organization\u2019s publicly stated goals is a just transition away from the industrial harvest of primary forest and towards second-growth forestry. Connolly states, \u201cIf a local community wants to go into a previously industrially managed forest and extract from there and turn those things into say mass timber products, pulp, pellets, other products, we wouldn\u2019t comment on that. That\u2019s the domain of professional forestry. That\u2019s where they can probably do some creative things. We don\u2019t really comment on where things go from those types of industrially managed forests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a world where there are many environmental challenges, Conservation North focuses its work on the protection for remaining primary forests in the Inland and Boreal Rainforests.<\/p>\n<p>You can catch <a href=\"https:\/\/davidsuzuki.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Suzuki<\/a> speak in Prince George BC at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofancestors.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House of Ancestors<\/a> Saturday October 7th, tickets at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/fundraiser-featuring-david-suzuki-tickets-716549728527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EventBrite<\/a> or in-person at <a href=\"https:\/\/booksandcompany.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Books &amp;Co<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_185610\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185610\" class=\"wp-image-185610 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Michelle-Connolly.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Connolly's head is framed in a outodoor winter image. She wers a fur lined hood pulled around her head, features red from cold. Red shoulders of jacket are visible. Snow covered pine branches are visibl in background.\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Michelle-Connolly.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Michelle-Connolly-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Michelle-Connolly-215x215.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-185610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Founder of local ecological group Conservation North, Michelle Connolly. Photo Credit - Michelle Connolly<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Suzuki is scheduled to speak in Prince George BC at the House of Ancestors Saturday October 7th. He\u2019ll be speaking of his unorthodox life journey and relationship with ecology and conservation. The aim is raise funds for Conservation North, a local group focused on environmental preservation and monitoring. Speaking with CFUR from the road&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":185721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[3212,2337,2437,1579],"radio":[238],"origine":[280,264,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185740,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185599\/revisions\/185740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185599"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=185599"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=185599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}