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Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
💰 @onedayspay is a simple — yet powerful — way for Canadians to do something meaningful: Donate the equivalent of one day’s pay (or however much you can afford) to an Indigenous-led organization.
This year, we were excited to learn that One Day’s Pay has chosen Stqeeye’ Learning Society as one of the three organizations they are highlighting.

💚 Stqeeye’ Learning Society is an Indigenous-led non-profit organization based on Salt Spring Island, B.C., in the traditional territory of the Quw’utsun Peoples. They restore and protect the lands and waters of Xwaaqw’um ( @xwaaqwum ) while revitalizing Indigenous knowledge, culture, and stewardship. Guided by Quw’utsun descendants, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and Youth, they foster self-determination and land-based learning.

🤝 Pacific Wild had the honour of travelling to Salt Spring Island earlier this month to see firsthand the incredible ecological and cultural restoration work Stqeeye’ Learning Society is implementing to bring the heartbeat back to the village of Xwaaqw’um. We left with so many new insights, and so inspired.

❤️‍🩹 We have one important update from Maiya that we’d like to add:
“In the time since we last met, I got to feed my 99 year old grandmother camas before she passed away. For the first time in over 100 years camas was harvested from Xwaaqw’um and fed to the oldest elder in Cowichan before she passed. My grandmother passed away two days after she got to taste it.”

Please consider supporting Stqeeye’ Learning Society’s important work.
➡️ 🔗 link in bio

“This isn’t just a beach or an ecosystem. This is a living relative that deserves to be taken care of and preserved for future generations and for these stories to stay alive through the land and through us.”
-Sulatiye’ (Maiya Modeste), P’hwulhp Restoration Project Coordinator, Stqeeye’ Learning Society

📹interviews captured by @cammacarthur

#OrangeShirtDay #TruthAndReconciliation #NationalDayofTruthandReconciliation #LandBack #EcologicalRestoration

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Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
💰 @onedayspay is a simple — yet powerful — way for Canadians to do something meaningful: Donate the equivalent of one day’s pay (or however much you can afford) to an Indigenous-led organization.
This year, we were excited to learn that One Day’s Pay has chosen Stqeeye’ Learning Society as one of the three organizations they are highlighting.

💚 Stqeeye’ Learning Society is an Indigenous-led non-profit organization based on Salt Spring Island, B.C., in the traditional territory of the Quw’utsun Peoples. They restore and protect the lands and waters of Xwaaqw’um ( @xwaaqwum ) while revitalizing Indigenous knowledge, culture, and stewardship. Guided by Quw’utsun descendants, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and Youth, they foster self-determination and land-based learning.

🤝 Pacific Wild had the honour of travelling to Salt Spring Island earlier this month to see firsthand the incredible ecological and cultural restoration work Stqeeye’ Learning Society is implementing to bring the heartbeat back to the village of Xwaaqw’um. We left with so many new insights, and so inspired.

❤️‍🩹 We have one important update from Maiya that we’d like to add:
“In the time since we last met, I got to feed my 99 year old grandmother camas before she passed away. For the first time in over 100 years camas was harvested from Xwaaqw’um and fed to the oldest elder in Cowichan before she passed. My grandmother passed away two days after she got to taste it.”

Please consider supporting Stqeeye’ Learning Society’s important work.
➡️ 🔗 link in bio

“This isn’t just a beach or an ecosystem. This is a living relative that deserves to be taken care of and preserved for future generations and for these stories to stay alive through the land and through us.”
-Sulatiye’ (Maiya Modeste), P’hwulhp Restoration Project Coordinator, Stqeeye’ Learning Society

📹interviews captured by @cammacarthur

#OrangeShirtDay #TruthAndReconciliation #NationalDayofTruthandReconciliation #LandBack #EcologicalRestoration

Old-growth forests are non-renewable. Once they are logged, they are gone forever.

These ancient forests are essential to biodiversity, a stable climate, clean water, community safety from floods and landslides, and Indigenous-led conservation.

🪵 BC promised a paradigm shift on old-growth logging and forestry reform. Yet clearcut logging continues at a staggering pace, while wildfires and floods intensify across the province.

📢 Join fellow community members on Oct 4, 1–3 PM for HANDS OFF OLD GROWTH rallies at the BC Legislature lawn, Victoria, and locations across B.C. to tell provincial leaders from ALL political parties that we demand an immediate end to old-growth logging, and a transition to ecologically and economically sound forestry.

📍 BC Legislature lawn, Victoria (concurrent rallies in Courtenay, Nelson, Powell River, & Pencticton)
🕐 October 4, 1:00–3:00 PM
✊ Speakers, live music, and a giant "Hands Off" canvas where you can trace your hand in solidarity

Find more info and RSVP via the Facebook Event (link in bio) to let others know you’ll be attending.

#SaveBCForests #EndOldGrowthLogging #HandsOffOldGrowth #SaveAncientForests

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Old-growth forests are non-renewable. Once they are logged, they are gone forever.

These ancient forests are essential to biodiversity, a stable climate, clean water, community safety from floods and landslides, and Indigenous-led conservation.

🪵 BC promised a paradigm shift on old-growth logging and forestry reform. Yet clearcut logging continues at a staggering pace, while wildfires and floods intensify across the province.

📢 Join fellow community members on Oct 4, 1–3 PM for HANDS OFF OLD GROWTH rallies at the BC Legislature lawn, Victoria, and locations across B.C. to tell provincial leaders from ALL political parties that we demand an immediate end to old-growth logging, and a transition to ecologically and economically sound forestry.

📍 BC Legislature lawn, Victoria (concurrent rallies in Courtenay, Nelson, Powell River, & Pencticton)
🕐 October 4, 1:00–3:00 PM
✊ Speakers, live music, and a giant "Hands Off" canvas where you can trace your hand in solidarity

Find more info and RSVP via the Facebook Event (link in bio) to let others know you’ll be attending.

#SaveBCForests #EndOldGrowthLogging #HandsOffOldGrowth #SaveAncientForests

❗Happening tonight, on September 28th! An evening focused on herring conservation, Indigenous justice, and the future of the Salish Sea.

Herring Rising: Indigenous Justice in the Salish Sea
📅 September 28, 2026
🕕 6:00–8:30 PM
📍 Esquimalt Gorge Park & Pavilion
🎟️ Tickets selling fast!
👉🔗 Get your tickets through the link in our bio!

Hosted by @georgiastraitbc and the Herring Conservation and Restoration Society, the event will bring together W̱SÁNEĆ Hereditary Chief Eric Pelkey, Dr. Sara Ohayon (@uvic Ocean Conservation Lab), and lawyer John Rich to explore the ecological, legal, and Indigenous perspectives behind the fight to protect herring. 🐟💙

Come learn, connect, and stand with Indigenous leaders working to restore herring and a thriving Salish Sea.

#PacificHerring #ProtectPacificHerring #BigLittleFish #YYJ #YYJEvents
@georgiastraitbc @conservancyhornbyisland @uvic

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❗Happening tonight, on September 28th! An evening focused on herring conservation, Indigenous justice, and the future of the Salish Sea.

Herring Rising: Indigenous Justice in the Salish Sea
📅 September 28, 2026
🕕 6:00–8:30 PM
📍 Esquimalt Gorge Park & Pavilion
🎟️ Tickets selling fast!
👉🔗 Get your tickets through the link in our bio!

Hosted by @georgiastraitbc and the Herring Conservation and Restoration Society, the event will bring together W̱SÁNEĆ Hereditary Chief Eric Pelkey, Dr. Sara Ohayon (@uvic Ocean Conservation Lab), and lawyer John Rich to explore the ecological, legal, and Indigenous perspectives behind the fight to protect herring. 🐟💙

Come learn, connect, and stand with Indigenous leaders working to restore herring and a thriving Salish Sea.

#PacificHerring #ProtectPacificHerring #BigLittleFish #YYJ #YYJEvents
@georgiastraitbc @conservancyhornbyisland @uvic

🌲🐦 Deep in Vancouver Island`s old-growth forests, a tiny seabird is nesting hundreds of feet up in the canopy; but most of us will never see it.

Marbled murrelets (MaMu) don`t nest like other seabirds. They fly up to 80 km inland to lay a single egg on a large moss-covered branch, often in trees hundreds of years old.

Unfortunately, as old-growth rapidly disappears, mainly from logging, so does the MaMu’s only viable nesting habitat. Populations are paying the price, with declines of up to 9% a year on Vancouver Island. Over 20% of MaMu habitat has disappeared across the Pacific Northwest in the last few decades alone.

These birds are notoriously hard to study, which has left dangerous gaps in the data that make it easier to keep logging forests that should be protected.

🔍 🥾That`s why this season, Pacific Wild helped support a citizen science effort with Old-growth Birders and Bioblitzers, deploying 30+ recording units across the island to listen for murrelets in unprotected old-growth, including the Walbran, one of the last intact old-growth watersheds left.

Early results show that MaMu are indeed nesting in many of these unprotected bastions of ancient forest. Now the work continues to pinpoint actual nest trees and build the case to protect these forests before it`s too late.

🌊🪶 Swipe through to learn more about the tiny seabird connecting B.C.`s forests to the sea, and read our blog (link in bio) for more information about this important citizen science project.

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🌲🐦 Deep in Vancouver Island's old-growth forests, a tiny seabird is nesting hundreds of feet up in the canopy; but most of us will never see it.

Marbled murrelets (MaMu) don't nest like other seabirds. They fly up to 80 km inland to lay a single egg on a large moss-covered branch, often in trees hundreds of years old.

Unfortunately, as old-growth rapidly disappears, mainly from logging, so does the MaMu’s only viable nesting habitat. Populations are paying the price, with declines of up to 9% a year on Vancouver Island. Over 20% of MaMu habitat has disappeared across the Pacific Northwest in the last few decades alone.

These birds are notoriously hard to study, which has left dangerous gaps in the data that make it easier to keep logging forests that should be protected.

🔍 🥾That's why this season, Pacific Wild helped support a citizen science effort with Old-growth Birders and Bioblitzers, deploying 30+ recording units across the island to listen for murrelets in unprotected old-growth, including the Walbran, one of the last intact old-growth watersheds left.

Early results show that MaMu are indeed nesting in many of these unprotected bastions of ancient forest. Now the work continues to pinpoint actual nest trees and build the case to protect these forests before it's too late.

🌊🪶 Swipe through to learn more about the tiny seabird connecting B.C.'s forests to the sea, and read our blog (link in bio) for more information about this important citizen science project.

🌲It`s National Forest Week, and we`re looking at the economics of B.C.`s deforestation crisis. Raw log exports reflect deep instability in B.C.`s forestry system — and B.C.`s own Provincial Forestry Advisory Council (PFAC) says the system is broken.

📉B.C.`s forestry sector faces ecological decline, mill closures, job losses, and outdated policies. PFAC calls for a shift from harvest-volume targets to area-based land management centred on ecological, social, and economic goals.

🪵Raw log exports show this unsustainable system in action: B.C. keeps exporting unprocessed timber while mills face fibre shortages, curtailments, and closures. The Union of BC Municipalities has endorsed Nanaimo`s call for a ban on raw log exports to keep more processing in-province.

Under B.C.`s surplus test, raw logs must be offered to domestic buyers before export. But as mills close, there are fewer buyers, making logs easier to deem "surplus" and ship elsewhere, further hurting the labour market.

💸In 2025, B.C. exported 2.5 million m³ of raw logs worth ~$390 million (0.4 million m³ to the U.S.), while importing 3.2 billion in forest products. On paper alone, we spent ~800 million more importing than we earned exporting raw logs.

Trade tensions made it worse: the U.S., B.C.`s largest market, imposed new tariffs on Canadian goods, and Canada responded with 25–50% counter-tariffs on U.S. wood, pulp, paper, plywood, and furniture.

So B.C. exports raw timber, loses local manufacturing jobs and revenue, then pays more for imported finished wood. Everyone loses except a few large timber corporations — while ancient forests keep being clear cut.

🌲Processing more B.C. timber at home could protect jobs and manufacturing, and keep more forest value here. Ancient forests are worth more standing, and plantations are worth more processed in B.C.

#SaveBCForests #RawLogExports #ForestConservation #ProtectOldGrowth

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🌲It's National Forest Week, and we're looking at the economics of B.C.'s deforestation crisis. Raw log exports reflect deep instability in B.C.'s forestry system — and B.C.'s own Provincial Forestry Advisory Council (PFAC) says the system is broken.

📉B.C.'s forestry sector faces ecological decline, mill closures, job losses, and outdated policies. PFAC calls for a shift from harvest-volume targets to area-based land management centred on ecological, social, and economic goals.

🪵Raw log exports show this unsustainable system in action: B.C. keeps exporting unprocessed timber while mills face fibre shortages, curtailments, and closures. The Union of BC Municipalities has endorsed Nanaimo's call for a ban on raw log exports to keep more processing in-province.

Under B.C.'s surplus test, raw logs must be offered to domestic buyers before export. But as mills close, there are fewer buyers, making logs easier to deem "surplus" and ship elsewhere, further hurting the labour market.

💸In 2025, B.C. exported 2.5 million m³ of raw logs worth ~$390 million (0.4 million m³ to the U.S.), while importing 3.2 billion in forest products. On paper alone, we spent ~800 million more importing than we earned exporting raw logs.

Trade tensions made it worse: the U.S., B.C.'s largest market, imposed new tariffs on Canadian goods, and Canada responded with 25–50% counter-tariffs on U.S. wood, pulp, paper, plywood, and furniture.

So B.C. exports raw timber, loses local manufacturing jobs and revenue, then pays more for imported finished wood. Everyone loses except a few large timber corporations — while ancient forests keep being clear cut.

🌲Processing more B.C. timber at home could protect jobs and manufacturing, and keep more forest value here. Ancient forests are worth more standing, and plantations are worth more processed in B.C.

#SaveBCForests #RawLogExports #ForestConservation #ProtectOldGrowth

🌲It`s National Tree Day in Canada, a fitting time to remind everyone (including B.C.`s Ministry of Logging... er, Forests) why it is essential to protect British Columbia`s last ancient forests.

Registered Forest Technologist Greg Herringer, featured in this video, knows Vancouver Island`s forests intimately. He`s measured some of the largest, oldest trees still standing — some over 4,000 years old! A fraction of them are protected. Far more are on the government`s literal chopping block. B.C. Timber Sales, the agency tasked with managing Crown forest land, continues to auction off the last patches of remnant ancient forest across the province, despite proven ecological, economic, and cultural harm, as well as widespread public outrage.

According to Greg, B.C.`s temperate coastal rainforests took root after the last ice age ended about 8-10,000 years ago, and have flourished since. After a century of intense resource extraction, less than 1% of that original ancient forest remains. The oldest living trees still standing sprouted in the original soil in some of the very first of these forests, which serve as bastions of rare and irreplaceable biodiversity, awe-inspiring for their sheer resilience.

Imagine the life lost with every toppled ancient tree. One large cedar can house thousands of beneficial insects; rare lichens, moss, and fungi; frogs and salamanders; birds including endangered screech owls and marbled murrelets; mice, voles, squirrels, and bats; dens for bears and wolves — and so much more.

Is it worth destroying that much life for a few boards that will end up as a backyard deck or roof shingles? We don`t think so. Neither do most British Columbians.

🛑 Join us in telling the B.C. government: Hands Off Old Growth.
✍️ Write your local representatives and demand an end to old-growth logging.
📣 Come rally on October 4th, 1–3pm at the B.C. Legislature in Victoria, or one of the simultaneous rallies in Nelson, Courtenay, and across the province. Link in bio for details.

#SaveBCForests #OldGrowthForest #AncientForest #EndClearcutLogging #EndOldGrowthLogging #NationalTreeDay

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$🌲It's National Tree Day in Canada, a fitting time to remind everyone (including B.C.'s Ministry of Logging... er, Forests) why it is essential to protect British Columbia's last ancient forests. Registered Forest Technologist Greg Herringer, featured in this video, knows Vancouver Island's forests intimately. He's measured some of the largest, oldest trees still standing — some over 4,000 years old! A fraction of them are protected. Far more are on the government's literal chopping block. B.C. Timber Sales, the agency tasked with managing Crown forest land, continues to auction off the last patches of remnant ancient forest across the province, despite proven ecological, economic, and cultural harm, as well as widespread public outrage. According to Greg, B.C.'s temperate coastal rainforests took root after the last ice age ended about 8-10,000 years ago, and have flourished since. After a century of intense resource extraction, less than 1% of that original ancient forest remains. The oldest living trees still standing sprouted in the original soil in some of the very first of these forests, which serve as bastions of rare and irreplaceable biodiversity, awe-inspiring for their sheer resilience. Imagine the life lost with every toppled ancient tree. One large cedar can house thousands of beneficial insects; rare lichens, moss, and fungi; frogs and salamanders; birds including endangered screech owls and marbled murrelets; mice, voles, squirrels, and bats; dens for bears and wolves — and so much more. Is it worth destroying that much life for a few boards that will end up as a backyard deck or roof shingles? We don't think so. Neither do most British Columbians. 🛑 Join us in telling the B.C. government: Hands Off Old Growth. ✍️ Write your local representatives and demand an end to old-growth logging. 📣 Come rally on October 4th, 1–3pm at the B.C. Legislature in Victoria, or one of the simultaneous rallies in Nelson, Courtenay, and across the province. Link in bio for details. #SaveBCForests #OldGrowthForest #AncientForest #EndClearcutLogging #EndOldGrowthLogging #NationalTreeDay$

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