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Very fresh tyre prints. so we're still on his tail. nine up dayton. he's coming off there isn't he, at nine? nine up. it's too muddy to follow, so we send up the drone. it's clear that trees have been felled. once again, drax claims this isn't primary forest because it's near a road. but the nearest paved road is six miles away. and the site appears to meet the un definitions of primary forest. we can see the drax truck being loaded up with tree trunks.

Forest here in british columbia and there's a listing here for over 600 acres — that's about a square mile of primary forest. and when you look up the results, this is interesting — nearly all of the bidders were timber companies, but they were all outbid by drax�*s pallet firm, pinnacle. this is what drax has bought — rare old—growth primary forest. drax initially told us that logging the area would reduce the risk of wildfire because many of the trees are dead. then, it said it had transferred the logging licence to another company. but we checked — drax still holds the licence. ...

We've found another section of primary forest where drax bought the logging licence. ok, here we are. let's go and have a look, shall we? the company claims neither of the logging sites are primary forests because they're near roads. but they appear to meet the un definitions of primary forests, which don't mention proximity to roads. drax had to build a track 500 metres long just to get to this site. wow, look at this. pinnacle drax. oh, yeah, look. goodness me. this whole area was logged in the matter of a couple of weeks. it's devastating.

This was a mature primary forest. now a company getting billions of pounds in environmental subsidies has cut it down. this area of primary forest, of forest that was in development for thousands of years, is now gone, it's been obliterated, and it's deeply upsetting. it's really a shame that british taxpayers are funding this destruction with their money. all over the scarred site, there are piles of leftover wood.

There are very, very, very fresh tyre prints. so we're still on his tail. nine up dayton. he's coming off there isn't he, at nine. nine up. it's too muddy to follow, so we send up the drone. it's clear that trees have been felled. once again, drax claims this isn't primary forest because it's near a road. but the nearest paved road is six miles away. and the site appears to meet the un definitions of primary forest. we can see the drax truck being loaded up with tree trunks.