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  • Sometimes in the rainforest, things get a little too tight for the giant screen...Here are some moments that didn't quite make it into the #GreatBearIMAX. WASHINGTON supporters! Are you itching to see the Great Bear Rainforest on the giant screen? The film opens at Seattle's #PacificScienceCenter on May 3rd, but we have some tickets for a very special pre-screening event with stories and behind-the-scenes from Director Ian McAllister on April 24th. Get yours before they sell out at the link in our bio under "#GreatBearIMAX Seattle Special"! @iantmcallister @macfreefilms @riverroadfilms @pacsci @gitgaatspirit #GreatBearRainforest . . . #ExploreBC #ig_discover_wildlife #wildlife_seekers #bearsofinstagram #bts #bloopers #filmmakersworld #R3D #wildlifephotography @reddigitalcinema @redcamerausers
  • Our coast provides us with our food, our climate, and our economy: our livelihood simply depends on the health of the ocean. For decades, a voluntary tanker exclusion zone has been in place in the #GreatBearRainforest. Now it’s time to legislate the ban and prohibit oil tankers in this vulnerable region. Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, would prohibit vessels carrying over 12,500 metric tonnes of crude or persistent oil in the North and Central coast and Haida Gwaii, but it is stuck in Senate. The Senate’s Transport Committee is currently hosting hearings across Canada on Bill C-48, including in Price Rupert on April 16th, and Terrace on April 17th. Senators on the Transport Committee still need to hear from the people who have the most to lose in the event of a catastrophic oil spill. Go to Stop Tankers in the Great Bear at the link in our bio to send in your letters. #BillC48 #NoTankers 📷by @iantmcallister
  • It's #MarineMonday, meaning that it is time for another texture photo of marine life found off the Pacific coast of B.C. What do you think this one is? Comment your answer below. . For our last #MarineMonday on April 1st, if you guessed the photo was of a hooded nudibranch, or melibe leonina, you were correct. Pronounced “new-dee-brank,” a nudibranch is a type of sea slug that has naked (“nudi”) gills (“branchs”). Only able to sense light and dark, these hooded nudibranchs emit a fruity scent in order to attract one another and to mate. Pacific Wild’s photographer @iantmcallister says these pheromones smell similar to a watermelon 🍉. . "You must be patient to find a nudibranch in a tidepool. Pretend the tidepool is history and the nudibranch a lacuna of history. When you do find a nudibranch, its brilliant cerata mane blinds you with truth— not the possession of truth but the effort in struggling to attain it brings joy to the searcher— you’re never the same again." — Poem by Jeffrey Yang, from An Aquarium
  • A wolf leaves its mark in the snow during a winter snow. For all things wild and free, this #ThrowbackThursday we are taking it back to an open letter the late Patrick Lane presented to a @universityofvictoria graduating class in 2013, reflecting on a defining moment of his life when he watched a cougar fall lifeless from a tree after being shot in BC's interior. . . "You are also one of the wild creatures of the Earth. I want you for one moment to imagine you are a ten-year-old on a half-blind, grey horse. You are watching a cougar fall from the high limb of a Ponderosa pine into a moil of raging dogs. The ones who have done this, the ones who have brought you here, are shooting at the sun. They are trying to bring a darkness into the world." . . Trophy hunting is an archaic, unethical activity that is often inhumane, especially in the case of big cats where hounds are used to track and chase animals into trees so they can be shot. Our friends at @wildlifedefenceleague have started a petition for a #TrophyFreeBC. You can help ban trophy hunting of our province's wild cats. Go to the link in our bio and sign their Change.org petition at "Ban Trophy Hunting of Our Wild Cats". Read the rest of Patrick's address in the @timescolonist. #TrophyFreeBC 📸 @iantmcallister . . . #wildernessculture #ExploreBC #landscape_captures #SaveBCWolves #bigcats #conservation
  • This is important. Today is the last day to submit your comments for BC's Northern and Southern Salmon Integrated Fisheries Management Plans. Despite a Canadian federal court ruling in February that farmed salmon must be tested for piscine orthoreovirus, the Parliamentary Secretary for @fisheriesoceanscan gave a less than satisfying response on federal plans to change aquaculture regulations after questioning by NDP Fisheries critic @gordyjohns in the House of Commons. Here's a must-read: A disturbing study published this past weekend in the @thetorontostar investigates Fisheries and Oceans Canada refusal to acknowledge mounting scientific evidence that shows the threat marine fish farms pose to wild salmon. Read it at the link in our bio under "Toronto Star: Fish Farms". Email DFO.PacificSalmonRMT-EGRSaumonduPacifique.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca with your comments on the management of wild salmon in BC. We need concrete plans to get fish farms out of the water. Tell DFO to stop ignoring the science. "Two studies have connected the virus with fish diseases in B.C. But court records and government documents previously released under Access to Information laws reveal the DFO has a pattern of downplaying this research. By law, the department can only allow farms to transfer fish into the ocean if they are free from any 'disease or disease agent' that could be harmful to wild fish." With rapidly diminishing salmon returns and seemingly declining federal interest in saving these critical species, this is truly the last stand for wild salmon. #FortheWildOnes #FishFarmsGetOut #MarineMonday @cleansingourwaters @alexmorton4salmon 📸 @iantmcallister . . . #wildsalmon #fisheriesmanagement #wildernessculture #salmonnation #cdnpoli #pnwonderland #SRKW #fishlove #HoC #explorebc
  • Thirty years ago on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil spill destroyed 1,300 miles (over 2000 km) of Alaska's coastline after the tanker hit a reef. Recent sampling has shown that some of the oil is still buried 4-8 inches below the surface of sea floor and is likely to remain there for decades. The herring population in Prince William Sound was one of many ecosystem catastrophes that the spill catalyzed, and the stock still hasn't recovered despite more than 25 years of exhaustive research, costing Prince William Sound $1 billion in lost economic opportunities, and bankrupting fishermen. The story of Prince William Sound is an example of the complexities and sensitivities of marine ecosystems. The Exxon Valdez also highlights the dangers that tankers pose to our waters and the communities that depend on them. Canada's Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, is still stuck in the Senate. We urge you to email a Senator today to ask for strict regulations to stop tankers transiting our nearshore waters. They haven't heard enough from the public yet - you can make a difference. Deputy Chair Sen. Dennis Dawson: dennis.dawson@sen.parl.gc.ca Deputy Chair Sen. Julie Miville-Dechênes: julie.miville-dechene@sen.parl.gc.ca Find two relevant articles on our Facebook page through the link in our bio. With @coastalfirstnations #BillC48 #NoTankers 📸 @iantmcallister @d.leowinata . . . #wildernessculture #herringiscaring #ExploreBC #exxonvaldez #oilspills #notankersnoproblem #sealionsunday #diveworld
  • Salmon are the lifeblood of our coast. Right now, young smolts are starting their migration out of the creeks of the Great Bear Rainforest for their first taste of the salty Pacific Ocean, feeding on the newly hatched herring from eggs that have covered coastal waters for the past weeks. The public input period for the Northern and Southern Pacific Salmon Integrated Fisheries Management Plans ends on Monday. If you are concerned about the future of these vital species, please take a moment this weekend to provide your thoughts and feedback by emailing DFO.PacificSalmonRMT-EGRSaumonduPacifique.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca. Tell DFO that we need to prioritize investments in the creek walkers that monitor our salmon-bearing creeks, and remove fish farms from the ocean. Find the draft plans and other relevant information about threats to our wild salmon for your email at https://pacificwild.org/campaign/protect-wild-salmon/ 📸 @iantmcallister . . . #FortheWildOnes #wildsalmon #wildernessculture #conservation #wildlifephotography #pnwonderland #cleansingourwaters
  • Carrie Humchitt from the Heiltsuk Nation and April Bencze from Pacific Wild bear witness to the last commercial seine fishery in Spiller channel in 2015. Four years ago yesterday, the commercial seine and gill net fleet were escorted out of Bella Bella after the Heiltsuk's decades long battle with DFO over herring fisheries management finally concluded with a closure of the seine and gill net sac roe fishery. This week, the shoreline of Spiller channel is thick with herring eggs as a future generation of herring readies itself to once again provide a foundation of life for the coast. Central coast stocks are far from historical abundance but cautious optimism still prevails in Bella Bella as previously overfished areas begin to show signs of recovery. With @aprilbencze and @heiltsukcouncil 📸 @iantmcallister #BIGLittleFish . . . #wildernessculture #ExploreBC #herringiscaring #fisheriesmanagement #feedthecoast #stewardship
  • It's #ChildrensBookDay, and to celebrate we thought it was a great time to tell you about some of our own children's literature that celebrates the Great Bear Rainforest ecosystems and all of its inhabitants. If you caught the #GreatBearIMAX, get an in-depth look at the behind-the-scenes world of the film with the accompanying book. For the really little ones (or to get your fill of cute), we also have a new baby book from Ian McAllister at https://shop.pacificwild.org/collections/books. Thanks to Orca Book Publishers for their continued support and partnership - they've put a ton of work into bringing the film and the Great Bear Rainforest to life on paper, and continue to be leaders in BC children's literature. #GreatBearRainforest With @gitgaatspirit @macfreefilms @orcabook 📸 @d.leowinata . . . #bcreads #childrensbooks #ig_discover_wildlife #naturalhistory #imax #filmmakersworld #behindthescenes
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