About 5,000 tree planters from across Canada are set to head into forests across the B.C. interior, as the province's biggest ever reforestation effort moves ahead, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tree planter Brian Beaudry can tell you a few things about ­grindingly hard work. He pokes thousands of seedlings into the ground each day, fighting heat, rain, injuries, bloodthirsty bugs, crushing ...

B.C.'s tree-planting community is grappling with new revelations of sexual assaults in remote work camps. More than 70 planters, almost all women, documented their experiences of harassment and sexual ...

Maria Agucci tree planting in a bug suit. “This photo looks the most artificial, like she’s an animal in a diorama,” says Leistner. “It’s almost anthropological and frightening.” Toronto’s Rita ...

About 5,000 tree planters from across Canada are set to head into forests across the B.C. interior, as the province's biggest ever reforestation effort moves ahead, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

A group of tree planters originally from Africa found living in deplorable conditions in a Golden, B.C., camp endured slave-like conditions because their employers discriminated against black people, ...

A year after the Khaira camp in Golden was shut down for squalid employment conditions, tree-planters at the camp still have not been paid – despite a decision that ordered their employers to ...

Jonathan 'Scooter' Clark, above, has worked as a tree planter in British Columbia for 25 years. Photo: Replant.ca. When Jonathan "Scooter" Clark began planting trees for a living in 1990, his work ...

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled the operators of a tree-planting business in Golden, B.C., racially discriminated against 55 workers from Congo in 2010. Khaira Enterprises has been ordered to ...

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