Skeena River sockeye have declined 75% since 1913. Woodland caribou have declined by more than half in the past century. But with the right resources, First Nations are bringing ancestral foods back from the brink.
We paddled the Nahanni, where, despite prominent opposition, roads will soon be built to the Prairie Creek mine in the heart of Nahanni National Park Reserve.
A retired wildland firefighter says he's never seen anything like the "history-maker" fire that raged in central Yukon last month and he fears it may flare up again next spring.
The newly established Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Provincial Park will help buffer Canada's endangered Wood Buffalo National Park from industrial encroachment but more protected areas are necessary to offset decades of major hydro and oilsands operations, First Nations say.
