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End Industrial Trawling In B.C.
Pacific Wild is calling for a moratorium on industrial trawl fishing to safeguard the health of B.C.’s ocean. Trawling is indiscriminate and destructive in nature and poses a significant threat to marine life and habitats.
Save BC Wolves
The province’s wolf cull program is arguably the most ecologically, economically, and ethically offensive element of their approach to wolf management.
Fish Farms Out
There is an urgent need to hold DFO accountable to their commitment to remove open-net salmon farms by 2025, as inaction poses a severe threat to the survival of wild salmon in B.C.
Protect Pacific Herring
Herring is a cornerstone of marine biodiversity on the B.C. coast, however, a wasteful commercial sac roe fishery is threatening herring stocks and the sustainable First Nations spawn-on-kelp fishery that dates back thousands of years.
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Join our uncanadian campaign to get f***ing open-net pen salmon farms out of bc waters
PACIFIC WILD STATEMENT
First Nations have an uncontestable right to fish for wild salmon; it is central to First Nations’ culture and traditions. Irrefutably, open-net fish farms threaten wild salmon, and the majority of First Nations and Canadians support the removal of open-net salmon farms. To this end, 120 First Nations in BC support the ban on open-net salmon farms. Collectively, we support a transition to land-based salmon farming, but another five years is too long. By 2029, it will have been 17 years of open-net pen farms, after the Cohen Commission’s recommended removal in 2012. There is still no transition plan in place. More than half of Pacific wild salmon runs are in decline with many listed as endangered or threatened.
Our message to the commercially focused multinational salmon farming industry is that wild salmon cannot withstand another five years of a threat to their survival. A transition to land-based farming must be actioned now.
from land to sea: Great bear rainforest story map
Explore the food web of the Great Bear Rainforest with this ArcGIS-powered Story Map and learn how species interconnect to feed coastal temperate rainforest ecosystems and coastal communities. On this interactive site, immerse your senses in the beauty of the Great Bear Rainforest, take a tour through the food web, explore the science and learn how you can take action to help conserve British Columbia’s precious marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
Explore issues through our storymaps
ArcGIS Storymaps combine maps and live data, along with multimedia like video, audio, infographics and text. Our growing library of storymaps take you into the field in British Columbia, putting you in the middle of conservation stories.
Many people have heard about the impacts of trawling and believe that it is illegal in Canada, but this could not be further from the truth. We set out on a multi-month journey to uncover the dark truth of trawling in British Columbia (B.C.), and map the impact of these ships and what secrets lie in their wake.
The Passage Paddle team, five adventurous women from Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Canada, are currently undertaking an extraordinary 1,500-kilometre kayak expedition from Telegraph Cove, British Columbia to Skagway, Alaska.
Explore this StoryMap to take a tour through the food web of the Great Bear Rainforest, discover the interconnected nature of the land and sea, and learn more about the incredible species that call the Pacific coastal temperate rainforest home.
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Your support is essential and together we can create enduring conservation achievements on the ground and in the waters of coastal British Columbia.
Featured Media
The wonders of this rainforest have to be seen to be believed. Watch our collection of videos to learn more about the Great Bear.
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