Environmental activists are crying fowl -- literally -- over what they say is the B.C. Liberal government's foot-dragging on what to do with 28,000 hectares of forest land on Vancouver Island.
The Dogwood Initiative, a Victoria-based environmental group, says activists released half a dozen chickens in Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong's constituency office on Tuesday.
Activist Sophie Waterman says the group released the birds because government leaders are being chickens about the issue.
The Dogwood Initiative says UBC has offered to buy the land on the southern tip of the island as a teaching forest, but the province has refused to provide any financial help.
Spokesman Gordon O'Connor says unions, community groups and First Nations leaders are working together to preserve the land, and the province is the only group not coming to the table.
