Valhalla Wilderness Society Film Screening - Safe Haven
Valhalla Wilderness Society Film Screening - Safe Haven
All are invited to a screening of Damien Gillis and Valhalla Wilderness Society's new film, Safe Haven: The Rainbow-Jordan Wilderness. The 30 minute film will be followed by a presentation by Valhalla Wilderness Society biologist and campaigner Amber Peters, including stunning photography from 25 years of research in British Columbia's inland temperate rainforest.
North Shore Hall - 675 Whitmore Rd, Nelson, BC V1L 6H7.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Film starts at 7pm.
Admission by donation.
This event is being hosted by the Valhalla Wilderness Society. The Rainbow-Jordan Wilderness proposal was designed to protect a globally significant Inland Temperate Rainforest near Revelstoke, BC. Since 2017 Valhalla Wilderness Society has studied the incredible biodiversity of this intact wilderness area that was previously unknown to science. Two years of filming in the proposal's ancient forest led to the creation of Safe Haven. The film is a call to action for British Columbians to support the campaign to protect three remaining biodiversity havens of the inland temperate rainforest.
Contact info (at) vws.org for more information.
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Nelson man wants Ecocide to be a crime
By John Rune
"Those rights doesn't actually mean anything unless we have criminal law to back them up with–Stop Ecocide member Jamie Hunter explains his vision.
A Nelson climate activist calls for more criminal consequences against countries or corporations who damage the environment.
Nelson resident Jamie Hunter, representative for the Canadian branch of the international Stop Ecocide campaign says him and his colleagues in the group got a good reception at the recent COP15 Biodiversity Conference in Montreal.
"Many of those people were from countries that are really being threatened right now by climate change and biodiversity loss," Hunter said. "So they were particularly interested in solutions like Stop Ecocide."
The organization is aiming for International Criminal Court, ICC, to add ecocide as a prosecutable offence, along with the courts mandate to investigate and pursue things like genocide or war crimes. The initiative strives to give individual countries prosecuting powers, or in the case they refuse, offer the ICC to prosecute.
Hunter said being at the Montreal conference gave the organization the first opportunity to gather its Canadian branch in-person.
