Climate-caused sea level rise is threatening coastlines in Canada. Caught in the squeeze are juvenile salmon, who depend on estuaries to survive. Now scientists and First Nations on Vancouver Island are trying to find out where baby salmon will live in the not-so-distant future. The question is: will we make room?
A new project hopes to train a Vancouver Island First Nations “strike team” to save and salvage cultural and sacred artifacts from the growing threat of fires and floods as the climate crisis advances.
The climate crisis appears to be increasing the numbers of hybrid salmon in western Canada. The hybrids of Chinook and Coho salmon were discovered in the Cowichan River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Many Canadians think old growth forests are protected from logging. Turns out, indigenous people and a scrappy band of activists called the Rainforest Flying Squad are all that stands between Vancouver Island's last old growth and logging companies.
British Columbia protects beaver lodges and occupied migratory bird nests, but there are no regulations protecting black bear dens in most parts of the province. On Vancouver Island, dens are vanishing along with old-growth forests.
