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"Indigenous guardians are the eyes and ears of their lands and waters. They don’t just monitor and manage their territories, they practice and embody their laws, know where their family lineages lie ...
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This is why what Cermaq Canada, a Norwegian fish farming conglomerate owned by Mitsubishi, is doing in Clayoquot Sound is perplexing many concerned citizens. First Nations and environmentalists are ...
Goldstream park is famous for the annual migration of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), which typically occurs from late October to early December. Photo Credit: The Goldstream Nature House. Every Fall ...
Katie Gair (TRRS) describes the deployment of portable aeration units in refuge pools of the Tsolum River to increase the survival of pink salmon adults returning to spawn. Allan Chamberlain (TRRS) ...
Diana Lake Park is a provincial recreational facility in northwest B.C. that offers a wide variety of water-related activities and trail access. Photo credit: Parks BC. Radha Agarwal, Local Journalism ...
Drought-related hardships compound the challenges that salmon already face due to habitat degradation and overfishing. Photo Source: Pacific Salmon Foundation. Eric’s research focuses on understanding ...
Emergency protections for endangered southern resident killer whales are urgently needed because of increased oil tanker traffic from the expanded Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline, says a coalition of ...
Increase in marine traffic could cause more collisions between large whales and even larger ships. This puts humpback whales at risk. Photo credit: BC Whales The peer-reviewed study, authored by ...
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An oil tanker at the terminus of the Transmountain Pipeline. TMX's port in Burnaby is too shallow for modern supertankers. Vancouver Island communities along the South Coast are coming together to ...