How a new "nature economy" is transforming the fight for BC’s ancient forests

Have you ever seen a tree so big it would take 10 people to wrap their arms around its trunk – and that still wouldn’t be enough? A tree as tall as a downtown office building? These trees exist and, in British Columbia’s coastal rainforests, are measured and even tracked by the people fighting to protect them.

But with powerful forces wanting to log these trees, there is a new frontier in the fight to save them. It’s an economic model that argues that leaving them standing is more profitable than cutting them down.

As Global's Anne Gaviola reports, this is called the "nature economy," and it relies on conservation and stewardship to promote economic growth.

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