For over 12 months, activists have set up blockades to prevent the logging of old growth forests in the Fairy Creek watershed on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island. More than 1,100 people have been arrested as part of the largest act of civil disobedience in recent Canadian history.

Canada: win for protesters as judge denies logging firm’s injunction bid

Judge blocks Teal Cedar Products’ extension request and says police conduct on Vancouver Island has put court at risk