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$Photo by @iantmcallister // Pacific Wild stands in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en land defenders and their fight for sovereignty and rights over unceded territory. The Wet'suwet'en people have been fighting for years to protect their homeland and waterways from Coastal GasLink, a pipeline construction company owned by Chinese, Malaysian and Korean oil and gas interests. ⁣ ⁣ The proposal is to transport natural gas from the fracking fields of Northern B.C. to Kitimat in the #GreatBearRainforest. The Wet'suwet'en land defenders and accredited journalists continue to be arrested by militarized police using assault rifles and attack dogs in clear contravention of court injunctions and the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indiginous Peoples.⁣ ⁣ As the Wet'suwet'en people continue to block Coastal GasLink and their unlawful presence, they are also fighting to protect the environmental integrity of their traditional territory. Respecting Wet’suwet’en rights, protects Indigenous rights and ensures that Canada is not willingly contributing to #ClimateChange and the destruction of critical habitat for many endangered species. ⁣ ⁣ Follow @wetsuweten_checkpoint and @yintah_access for opportunities to support land defenders. ⁣ ⁣ #UNDRIP #LandBack #Wetsuweten #WetsuwetenStrong #Gidimten #BCpoli #CDNpoi #CoastalGaslink #Reconciliation$

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Footage by @iantmcallister // Patience is a virtue. This mother black bear isn’t giving salmon a free pass through these rapids to reach their spawning grounds.⁣⁠
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#SalmonCount⁣⁠
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#PacificWild #BlackBear #GreatBearRainforest #IG_Discover_Wildlife #ExploreBC #NatureLovers #WildlifeVideography ⁠

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Footage by @iantmcallister // As winter approaches, grizzly bears are spending more and more time searching for food and eating. Crab apples are a favourite choice for coastal bears in the #GreatBearRainforest region.⁣
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#PacificWild #GrizzlyBear #IG_discover_wildlife #ExploreBC

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Photo by @iantmcallister // The #BCflood has had widespread impact on waterways in the Lower Mainland, home to 1,500 km2 of salmon habitat. The impacts of flood infrastructure in watersheds are intensified as water levels rise, which can block migration paths and kill wild salmon attempting to return to their natal streams to spawn. Additionally, juvenile salmon migrating out to sea this spring will have to combat highly-disturbed streams and river systems. An article in @thenarwhal considers how we can make infrastructure in the Lower Fraser more fish-friendly moving forward. Nature-based climate solutions like large green spaces, buffers, and living dikes can protect salmon habitats during flooding — a problem only expected to rise in frequency and magnitude over the coming decades as the climate of the Pacific Northwest changes. ⁠
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#SalmonCount

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Footage by @iantmcallister // The ocean can turn up all sorts of meals for coastal sea wolves (a genetically distinct population of the grey wolf). They’re known to feast on a wide array of marine cuisine from barnacles to sea lions. While they don’t have a hope of catching a seal or sea lion at sea, on land it’s a different story.

#SaveBCWolves 🐺

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Photo by @iantmcallister // The pending and controversial opening of the herring bait fishery in the Salish Sea is top of mind for many of us here in British Columbia. Herring are a critical prey source and feed innumerable coastal species directly and indirectly, including some of the most iconic. Chinook, coho, lingcod, rockfish, halibut, dolphins, harbour seals, and a myriad of species of whales and birds all depend on these #BIGLittleFish. Even large terrestrial mammals like bears and wolves feed on herring eggs in the intertidal zone during the spring spawn. ⁣
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The current herring fishery is forecast to have a quota of over 2,100 tons, much of which will, ironically, end up going to salmon farms in B.C. and tuna ranches in Mexico and Canada. Some of the herring will go to feed captive whales and dolphins in “amusement parks”. Why are we allowing wild herring, the foundation of marine food webs, to be harvested for these purposes when their low numbers are already impacting the health of wild species that depend on them?
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The good news is that Canada has a new Fisheries Minister from the west coast and she needs to hear from you. Contact Hon. Minister Joyce Murray to tell her that it's time for @fisheriesoceanscan to make drastic changes to its current approach to management of foundational species like herring. We need a sustainable, ecosystem-based approach before it's too late.

#BIGLittleFish 🐟

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