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🐙 Ocean Week Victoria starts in just TWO days! Join Pacific Wild as we kick off a week of ocean-inspired events, community action, and marine conservation celebrations across Greater Victoria. We’re starting this weekend with two exciting events:

🌊 Gorge Splashtacular Ocean Festival
🗓️ May 30 | ⏰ 12–4 PM
📍 Gorge Waterway Nature House
💲Free
💙 Hosted by @seaquaria_ocean_education + @gorgewaterwaynaturehouse

🌊 World Ocean Day at Fisherman’s Wharf
🗓️ May 31 | ⏰ 11 AM–4 PM
📍 Fisherman’s Wharf
💲Free
💙 Hosted by @eaglewingtours + @vicharbour

Visit the Pacific Wild table to meet our staff and volunteers, learn about our marine campaigns, and discover how you can help protect B.C.’s marine environment. We’ll also have marine mammal specimens on loan from the @universityofvictoria and @royalbcmuseum for a rare hands-on learning experience. More events throughout the week:

🌊 Ocean Opportunities Fair
🗓️ June 3 | ⏰ 4–7 PM
📍 3170 Tillicum Rd
💲Free
💙 Hosted by @gorgewaterwaynaturehouse

🌊 Film Screening: Ocean with David Attenborough
🗓️ June 4 | ⏰ 6–9:15 PM
📍 Vic Theatre
💲Free | 19+ | Registration required | ⚠️ Almost at capacity, 🔗 in bio!
💙 Hosted by Pacific Wild with thanks to @ReviveOurOcean, @silverback_films, @natgeo + @openplanetorg

🌊 World Ocean Day Festival at Beacon Park
🗓️ June 7 | ⏰ 11 AM–3 PM
📍 Sidney, BC
💲Free
💙 Hosted by @salishseacentre

🌊 Marine Ecology Exploration by Paddleboard
🗓️ May 30 | June 7 & 8
📍 Gonzales Bay
💲By donation | Registration required | 🔗 in bio!
💙 Hosted by @mertalesoceanjourneys, @southislandsup + Pacific Wild’s Marine Specialist

👀 Check out @oceanweekvictoria for the full 2026 calendar and @oceanweek_canada for events across the country. Did you know that June is also @orcamonth?

#OceanFilm #OceanWithDavidAttenborough #ReviveOurOcean #OceanWeekVictoria #OceanWeekCanada

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🐙 Ocean Week Victoria starts in just TWO days! Join Pacific Wild as we kick off a week of ocean-inspired events, community action, and marine conservation celebrations across Greater Victoria. We’re starting this weekend with two exciting events:

🌊 Gorge Splashtacular Ocean Festival
🗓️ May 30 | ⏰ 12–4 PM
📍 Gorge Waterway Nature House
💲Free
💙 Hosted by @seaquaria_ocean_education + @gorgewaterwaynaturehouse

🌊 World Ocean Day at Fisherman’s Wharf
🗓️ May 31 | ⏰ 11 AM–4 PM
📍 Fisherman’s Wharf
💲Free
💙 Hosted by @eaglewingtours + @vicharbour

Visit the Pacific Wild table to meet our staff and volunteers, learn about our marine campaigns, and discover how you can help protect B.C.’s marine environment. We’ll also have marine mammal specimens on loan from the @universityofvictoria and @royalbcmuseum for a rare hands-on learning experience. More events throughout the week:

🌊 Ocean Opportunities Fair
🗓️ June 3 | ⏰ 4–7 PM
📍 3170 Tillicum Rd
💲Free
💙 Hosted by @gorgewaterwaynaturehouse

🌊 Film Screening: Ocean with David Attenborough
🗓️ June 4 | ⏰ 6–9:15 PM
📍 Vic Theatre
💲Free | 19+ | Registration required | ⚠️ Almost at capacity, 🔗 in bio!
💙 Hosted by Pacific Wild with thanks to @ReviveOurOcean, @silverback_films, @natgeo + @openplanetorg

🌊 World Ocean Day Festival at Beacon Park
🗓️ June 7 | ⏰ 11 AM–3 PM
📍 Sidney, BC
💲Free
💙 Hosted by @salishseacentre

🌊 Marine Ecology Exploration by Paddleboard
🗓️ May 30 | June 7 & 8
📍 Gonzales Bay
💲By donation | Registration required | 🔗 in bio!
💙 Hosted by @mertalesoceanjourneys, @southislandsup + Pacific Wild’s Marine Specialist

👀 Check out @oceanweekvictoria for the full 2026 calendar and @oceanweek_canada for events across the country. Did you know that June is also @orcamonth?

#OceanFilm #OceanWithDavidAttenborough #ReviveOurOcean #OceanWeekVictoria #OceanWeekCanada

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Happy World Otter Day 🦦🌊

Sea otters once ranged across the entire North Pacific Rim, from northern Japan to Baja California. Today, they occupy only about half of their historic range after being driven to near extinction by the fur trade in the 1800s.

Sea otters are far more than just an iconic species, research shows they are both keystone species and ecosystem engineers. By foraging through eelgrass meadows in search of clams and other prey, sea otters help increase genetic diversity in eelgrass, making coastal ecosystems more resilient to warming oceans and acidification. Studies have also found that their presence can increase overall ecosystem biomass by 37% annually, supporting healthier and more productive marine food webs.

To learn more and support ongoing and future sea otter recovery efforts, check out our friends at the @elakhaalliance in Oregon. Founded by Tribal leaders, conservationists, and community advocates, they are working to restore sea otters to the Oregon coast. Their work focuses on science, community engagement, and building support for sea otter recovery to help create a more resilient marine ecosystem for future generations.

#SeaOtter #WorldOtterDay #MarineConservation #MarineProtection

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Happy World Otter Day 🦦🌊

Sea otters once ranged across the entire North Pacific Rim, from northern Japan to Baja California. Today, they occupy only about half of their historic range after being driven to near extinction by the fur trade in the 1800s.

Sea otters are far more than just an iconic species, research shows they are both keystone species and ecosystem engineers. By foraging through eelgrass meadows in search of clams and other prey, sea otters help increase genetic diversity in eelgrass, making coastal ecosystems more resilient to warming oceans and acidification. Studies have also found that their presence can increase overall ecosystem biomass by 37% annually, supporting healthier and more productive marine food webs.

To learn more and support ongoing and future sea otter recovery efforts, check out our friends at the @elakhaalliance in Oregon. Founded by Tribal leaders, conservationists, and community advocates, they are working to restore sea otters to the Oregon coast. Their work focuses on science, community engagement, and building support for sea otter recovery to help create a more resilient marine ecosystem for future generations.

#SeaOtter #WorldOtterDay #MarineConservation #MarineProtection

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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 For over a decade, the government of British Columbia, Canada, has been gunning down wolves and calling it caribou conservation. Now they want to extend the wolf cull for another five years.

🐺 After killing nearly 3,000 wolves since 2015, the Province has not committed to protect or restore the habitat that scientists — including the government`s own cited researchers — agree is the only thing that will allow caribou to survive without ongoing human intervention.

💰 Killing wolves does nothing to address the industrial habitat destruction driving caribou toward extinction. It simply means killing wolves by the hundreds, year after year, at a cost of millions in taxpayer dollars (over $13 million to date) while the root causes of decline go unaddressed. It is unethical, unsustainable and scientifically questionable. The cull cannot be allowed to continue.

📣 Pacific Wild is one of several stakeholders that has been invited to submit for feedback on the proposed extension by June 15th. We believe the public deserves to be heard as well. That`s why we`re not responding alone. We`re gathering your voices and bringing them directly to provincial decision makers.

👉🔗 Follow the link in our bio to submit your comments for us to share with B.C.`s decision makers. It only takes a few minutes, and it matters.

💙 Tell B.C. to end the wolf cull once and for all.

🎥 @iantmcallister and @visionhawkfilms

#SaveBCWolves #Wolves #WildlifeManagement #WildlifeConservation #CompassionateConservation

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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 For over a decade, the government of British Columbia, Canada, has been gunning down wolves and calling it caribou conservation. Now they want to extend the wolf cull for another five years.

🐺 After killing nearly 3,000 wolves since 2015, the Province has not committed to protect or restore the habitat that scientists — including the government's own cited researchers — agree is the only thing that will allow caribou to survive without ongoing human intervention.

💰 Killing wolves does nothing to address the industrial habitat destruction driving caribou toward extinction. It simply means killing wolves by the hundreds, year after year, at a cost of millions in taxpayer dollars (over $13 million to date) while the root causes of decline go unaddressed. It is unethical, unsustainable and scientifically questionable. The cull cannot be allowed to continue.

📣 Pacific Wild is one of several stakeholders that has been invited to submit for feedback on the proposed extension by June 15th. We believe the public deserves to be heard as well. That's why we're not responding alone. We're gathering your voices and bringing them directly to provincial decision makers.

👉🔗 Follow the link in our bio to submit your comments for us to share with B.C.'s decision makers. It only takes a few minutes, and it matters.

💙 Tell B.C. to end the wolf cull once and for all.

🎥 @iantmcallister and @visionhawkfilms

#SaveBCWolves #Wolves #WildlifeManagement #WildlifeConservation #CompassionateConservation

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🌊 Yesterday marked an exciting milestone for #MarineProtection on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

🐟 Coastal First Nations, alongside Parks Canada and British Columbia, have announced the establishment of Mia-yaltwa Ha’lidzogm hoon (pronounced: Me-ah-yall-twa Ha-lee-joh-gom hOH-own), meaning “Realm of the Salmon” and “Home of the Salmon”, a new National Marine Conservation Area Reserve and Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

🐋 This marine protected area reflects generations of Indigenous stewardship and deep connections to these coastal waters. The area supports salmon, herring, eulachon, whales, deep-sea coral, sponge reefs, coastal livelihoods, and the communities that rely on a healthy ocean. Fishing, tourism, and other marine activities will continue as neighbours, harvesters, local communities, scientists, tour operators, and governments work together through shared stewardship and joint management of the area.

💪🏽 Protecting these waters helps safeguard the abundance that coastal communities depend on, while supporting healthy ecosystems and strong local economies for Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities alike.

📸 @iantmcallister

#MarineProtection #GreatBearSea #GreatBearSeaMPA #MarineConservation #Biodiversity

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🌊 Yesterday marked an exciting milestone for #MarineProtection on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

🐟 Coastal First Nations, alongside Parks Canada and British Columbia, have announced the establishment of Mia-yaltwa Ha’lidzogm hoon (pronounced: Me-ah-yall-twa Ha-lee-joh-gom hOH-own), meaning “Realm of the Salmon” and “Home of the Salmon”, a new National Marine Conservation Area Reserve and Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

🐋 This marine protected area reflects generations of Indigenous stewardship and deep connections to these coastal waters. The area supports salmon, herring, eulachon, whales, deep-sea coral, sponge reefs, coastal livelihoods, and the communities that rely on a healthy ocean. Fishing, tourism, and other marine activities will continue as neighbours, harvesters, local communities, scientists, tour operators, and governments work together through shared stewardship and joint management of the area.

💪🏽 Protecting these waters helps safeguard the abundance that coastal communities depend on, while supporting healthy ecosystems and strong local economies for Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities alike.

📸 @iantmcallister

#MarineProtection #GreatBearSea #GreatBearSeaMPA #MarineConservation #Biodiversity

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🐟 Wild Pacific salmon are a foundational species, nourishing life from the open ocean to towering coastal rainforests. When salmon return to their rivers to spawn, they carry marine nutrients inland, feeding entire ecosystems and sustaining the web of life that depends on them.

🌲🐻🐺 Forests. Bears. Wolves. Critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales. Coastal communities. Wild salmon connect them all.

🤢 Open-net pen salmon farms don’t just threaten wild salmon, they threaten the ecosystems and communities salmon sustain. These farms can expose wild salmon to disease and pathogens at their most vulnerable life stages as young fish migrate past net pens and out to sea. And unlike many other pressures facing wild salmon, this is one threat the federal government can directly control.

❗The federal government has a duty to all Canadians, human and non-human alike, to do everything possible to safeguard wild Pacific salmon for future generations. That means upholding their promise to ban on open-net pen salmon farms by 2029 without more delays or backtracking.

🔗🗣️ Follow the links in our bio to send a pre-written letter to the government urging them to uphold the 2029 ban on open-net pen salmon farms. Show that you care about the future of wild Pacific salmon and the ecosystems, wildlife, and coastal communities that depend on them.

@markjcarney @joannethompsonstjohns @davidebybc

#FOFF #SaveBCSalmon #MigratorySalmon #PacificSalmon #WildSalmon

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🐟 Wild Pacific salmon are a foundational species, nourishing life from the open ocean to towering coastal rainforests. When salmon return to their rivers to spawn, they carry marine nutrients inland, feeding entire ecosystems and sustaining the web of life that depends on them.

🌲🐻🐺 Forests. Bears. Wolves. Critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales. Coastal communities. Wild salmon connect them all.

🤢 Open-net pen salmon farms don’t just threaten wild salmon, they threaten the ecosystems and communities salmon sustain. These farms can expose wild salmon to disease and pathogens at their most vulnerable life stages as young fish migrate past net pens and out to sea. And unlike many other pressures facing wild salmon, this is one threat the federal government can directly control.

❗The federal government has a duty to all Canadians, human and non-human alike, to do everything possible to safeguard wild Pacific salmon for future generations. That means upholding their promise to ban on open-net pen salmon farms by 2029 without more delays or backtracking.

🔗🗣️ Follow the links in our bio to send a pre-written letter to the government urging them to uphold the 2029 ban on open-net pen salmon farms. Show that you care about the future of wild Pacific salmon and the ecosystems, wildlife, and coastal communities that depend on them.

@markjcarney @joannethompsonstjohns @davidebybc

#FOFF #SaveBCSalmon #MigratorySalmon #PacificSalmon #WildSalmon

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🐟 Wild Pacific salmon need us now. The federal government promised to remove open-net pen salmon farms from British Columbia (B.C.) waters by 2029, and this commitment must be honoured.

💪🏽 More than 120 First Nations across B.C. are calling for an end to open-net pen farming to protect wild salmon, ecosystems, and future generations. As Chief Ḥupačasatḥ Ḥawił Tsu Tsii In (Alton Watts) of the Hupacasath Nation writes in an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney:

🗣️ “...Salmon are our relatives. They are teachers. They are the thread connecting our communities to our ancestors and to every generation that follows. When the salmon suffer, so do we, and the salmon are suffering…Open-net pen salmon farming bears direct responsibility for accelerating that decline. It is also the one pressure on wild salmon that is entirely within the federal government’s power to remove.”

📣 The salmon are waiting. Add your voice today! Tell the federal government to keep its 2029 promise – phase out open-net pen salmon farms and invest in a future built on wild salmon recovery, healthy oceans, and thriving coastal communities.

🔗 Follow the link in our bio to send a pre-written letter to the government today.

@markjcarney @joannethompsonstjohns @davidebybc

#FOFF #SaveBCSalmon #MigratorySalmon #PacificSalmon #WildSalmon

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🐟 Wild Pacific salmon need us now. The federal government promised to remove open-net pen salmon farms from British Columbia (B.C.) waters by 2029, and this commitment must be honoured.

💪🏽 More than 120 First Nations across B.C. are calling for an end to open-net pen farming to protect wild salmon, ecosystems, and future generations. As Chief Ḥupačasatḥ Ḥawił Tsu Tsii In (Alton Watts) of the Hupacasath Nation writes in an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney:

🗣️ “...Salmon are our relatives. They are teachers. They are the thread connecting our communities to our ancestors and to every generation that follows. When the salmon suffer, so do we, and the salmon are suffering…Open-net pen salmon farming bears direct responsibility for accelerating that decline. It is also the one pressure on wild salmon that is entirely within the federal government’s power to remove.”

📣 The salmon are waiting. Add your voice today! Tell the federal government to keep its 2029 promise – phase out open-net pen salmon farms and invest in a future built on wild salmon recovery, healthy oceans, and thriving coastal communities.

🔗 Follow the link in our bio to send a pre-written letter to the government today.

@markjcarney @joannethompsonstjohns @davidebybc

#FOFF #SaveBCSalmon #MigratorySalmon #PacificSalmon #WildSalmon

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