Part one included the Torrey Canyon disaster, harmony with nature and protections for mako sharks, with hints that they are all connected by something specific, something important. Something to do with rights and liability… You…
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This story is about everywhere and everything. But we’ll begin in 1967. And we’ll begin with a shipwreck. Picture a disaster at sea and its easy to imagine dramatic conditions playing a part. The loss…
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Pew Environment, the environmentally focused wing of Pew Charitable Trusts, is a leading proponent and participant in the process towards the new forthcoming UN Treaty for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity Beyond…
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A grey whale is charismatic even when it’s dead. The eighth grey to be stranded on BC’s coast this year, and the 4th to be found on the coast of Haida Gwaii according to Fisheries…
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There’s an abiding truth about conservation–no matter how much we may want it to be about the living world beyond humankind, inevitably it gets down to the things that people do and don’t do. Staggering…
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Dark Forces and Bright Horizons – The Realpolitik of Ocean Conservation at a Macro Level
by Jason MurphyThe Good Ship UBC The University of British Columbia (UBC) could almost be a ship, poised as it is on the promontory forming the southern shore of Burrard Inlet, the expanse of water where the…
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The processes involved in establishing a working conservation area anywhere are complex. This may be especially so in Canada, where there are often a multitude of players at the table. Since the Canadian Constitution Act…
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Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the Northwest Coast of British Columbia (BC), has been continuously inhabited by the Haida people for over 12,000 years. The past two centuries have seen Haida Gwaii’s resources exploited, sometimes…
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This is the second part of the Sealives Initiative piece on Pacific Herring and Haida artist April White’s “Herring Series.” Please see Part I of this story here. The story picks up just after April…
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Pacific herring have inhabited the waters of the Pacific Northwest for unknown millennia. These small, oily pelagic zone-inhabiting creatures used to exist in such numbers that their catch rates were measured in tonnes, not numbers…