Blood Water by Tavish Campbell

January 22, 2019

This is an international embarrassment to Canada!

Write to Premier John Horgan ([email protected]) and Prime Minister Justine Trudeau ([email protected]) and tell them the B.C. salmon aquaculture industry MUST transition to land.

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A Peale’s Peregrine falcon searches for seabirds, fish, and insects in British Columbia. As apex predators, they play an important role in balancing and regulating populations of lower species on the food chain. Listed as endangered in 1969, the peregrine falcon has significantly recovered after harmful pesticides in their habitat were restricted and a captive breeding program was formed. Today, their numbers have returned to historic abundance, demonstrating the remarkable resilience of nature when given a chance. ⁠

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Yesterday, the BC government released its Predator Reduction for Caribou Recovery Engagement Survey results. The majority (59%) were against and (37%) were in support of a five-year continued wolf cull program. The vast majority of respondents also listed habitat protection (regulating land use), habitat restoration, and habitat management as the top three actions for caribou recovery.⁠
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This is a clear directive to the B.C. government that it needs to stop the wolf cull and focus on protecting and restoring old-growth forest habitat to ensure mountain caribou survival.
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The @nytimes recently reported on rampant wolf slaughter taking place in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming through unrestricted baiting, hunting, and trapping. State lawmakers have reduced protection for the gray wolf species and the federal government no longer lists wolves as threatened to extinction. Montana and Idaho are home to 75% of the gray wolf population in the Northern Rockies but continue to allow bounty payments on dead wolves, which incentivizes the bloodshed. The vilification of wolves seems to be alive and well below the border just as it is here in Canada.⁣
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Killing of apex predators creates serious ecological consequences, disturbing natural food chains. Similarly to the wolf cull in British Columbia, predator management is at the authority of regional managers and there is no public oversight of the killing operation. Here in B.C., the government’s decision to scapegoat wolves represents a failure to protect and restore old-growth forest habitat required by mountain caribou. Instead these habitats are fragmented and destroyed by industrial logging, oil and gas exploration. Wolves are an integral part of coastal and inland ecosystems and remain one of our greatest icons of our quickly disappearing wild lands and waters.

Stand up and help us #SaveBCWolves at pacificwild.org. Photo by @iantmcallister

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Photo by @iantmcallister // Each spring, one of nature’s greatest phenomenons takes place in the #GreatBearRainforest region of British Columbia—the herring spawn. Along the Salish Sea, you’ll spot thousands of surf scoters, a migratory sea duck that times its annual migration to summer nesting grounds to coincide with this event. Herring eggs provide a rich and nutritious food source for these birds during this long journey! ⁣⁠
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Just another reason these #BIGLittleFish deserve stricter, ecosystem-based management approaches from @fisheriesoceanscan.⁣⁠
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🤩DREAM JOB OPPORTUNITY🤩 We’re looking for a Project Director with a collaborative and empowering leadership style to spearhead our marine-and terrestrial-related conservation campaigns!⁣⁠
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In this newly established role, the Project Director will work to ensure seamless team management and development, program delivery, quality assurance and evaluation. Under the Executive Director’s direction, the Project Director will manage a team of talented communications experts, filmmakers, photographers, writers, researchers, scientists and support staff all responsible for developing and delivering campaigns that are visually compelling, strategic, science-based and focused on positive conservation outcomes.⁣⁠
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If this sounds like you or someone you know, visit pacificwild.org/were-hiring (link in bio) for all the details on how to apply. Applications close Feb 16 at midnight! ⁣⁠
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