Save the Central Walbran Valley! (Drone Footage) - Canada's Grandest Ancient Forest at Risk HD

Send a message to the BC government at http://www.AncientForestAlliance.org To learn more, please see our media release here: http://www.ancientforestalliance.org/news-item.php?ID=922 Video & editing by TJ Watt: DJI Phantom 2 w/ H3-3D gimbal and GoPro Hero 4 Black. Canon 5D MKII for ground shots. Music courtesy of: Gidge - Fauna, pt 1 http://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-bells Ancient Forest Alliance • https://www.facebook.com/ancientforestalliance • http://www.AncientForestPetition.com Conservationists are employing a new tool in the battle to protect BC’s endangered old-growth forests – remotely-piloted drones. The Ancient Forest Alliance is using a small drone equipped with a GoPro camera to monitor and document the endangered old-growth forests of the Central Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island. This has allowed the organization to capture aerial video footage of old-growth forests threatened by logging on steep, rugged terrain that otherwise would take hours to hike to. Helicopter-based logging, or heli-logging, is expected for several of the eight proposed cutblocks in the Central Walbran Valley, including the first approved Cutblock 4424 (approved last Friday by the BC Forest Service), due to the difficulty of road access in the mountains.