Canada | Two First Nation leaders tell anti-logging protesters to leave their territory

Two chiefs of a First Nation in western Canada have told anti-old growth logging protesters camped out on their traditional lands to pack up and go home.

Operating under the banner of the Rainforest Flying Squad, a group of predominantly non-Indigenous activists have been blocking logging roads across a swath of southern Vancouver Island and calling for an immediate halt to old-growth logging since last August.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/14/canada-logging-blockade-first-nations-pacheedaht

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