Not sure if this is really tool use by #wolves but it's pretty damn clever

#ecology #evolution #wolf #Heiltsuk #BC #britishcolumbia #canada #wildlife

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72348

In #BritishColumbia, the #Indigenous #Haíɫzaqv or #Heiltsuk Nation has been battling an invader: the invasive European green #crab. It gobbles up native clam and crabs and damages fish habitats. To control this crab, they set up traps containing herring and sea lion meat.

But they noticed that something or someone was stealing these traps, bringing them ashore, and grabbing the bait. Even traps placed in deep water.

It turns out the thieves were #wolves.

https://nautil.us/wolves-caught-on-camera-fishing-for-the-first-time-1248516/

Via #CTV - Nov 17, 2025

Researchers have captured vdo footage of wild #wolves in #BritishColumbia pulling crab traps out of sea by their lines 2 eat bait inside, in 1st evidence of possible tool use by the animals

Report released Monday in the scientific journal #EcologyAndEvolution by researchers #Kyle Artelle and #PaulPaquet says they placed cameras on the beach aimed at #Heiltsuk #FirstNation crab traps to work out what was repeatedly damaging them

#Science

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/bc-wolves-use-line-to-pull-up-crab-traps-in-first-possible-tool-use-by-species/

A first child has been born in Bella Bella, on the Híɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation territory, in about 13 years.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heiltsuk-baby-born-heiltsuk-land-9.6937387
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Un premier enfant est né à Bella Bella, sur le territoire de la nation Híɫzaqv (Heiltsuk), en environ 13 ans.

// Article en anglais //

#Heiltsuk #BellaBella

The Guardian: After 150 years, a prized box returns to an Indigenous nation in Canada: ‘I felt like royalty traveling with it’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/01/bentwood-box-canada-indigenous-nation

#indigenous #Heiltsuk #HeiltsukNation

“If these are truly your lands, where are your stories?”

The Guardian: An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/12/canada-indigenous-heiltsuk-constitution

#Indigenous #HeiltsukNation #Heiltsuk #LandBack #CanPoli #BCPoli

Clean Up the Beach in #solidarity with #Heiltsuk Nation

June 8 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join RAVEN and #Surfrider for a World Oceans Day beach cleanup, where we’ll be fundraising for Heiltsuk Nation’s legal challenge that aims to protect #marine #ecosystems from coast to coast to coast.

This year, we’re choosing to engage in #community reciprocity not just for our own local #watersheds, but as an act of solidarity with Heiltsuk Nation, whose own beach cleanup — following the Nathan E. Stewart spill — is so much more complex.

So, come out to #CloverPoint in Victoria on Sunday, June 8, 2025 from 11am-1pm for a community-powered beach cleanup. Together we are aiming to fundraise $2,000 for Heiltsuk’s legal challenge on #WorldOceansDay.

https://raventrust.com/event/clean-up-the-beach-in-solidarity-with-heiltsuk-nation/

#YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #BeachCleanup #Volunteers #CommunityWork #Environmental

‘Historic referendum’: Heiltsuk Nation votes on written constitution https://globalnews.ca/news/11007261/heiltsuk-constitution-referendum/

#Heiltsuk #HeiltsukNation #IndigenousRights #IndigenousGovernance

Members of the #Heiltsuk Nation in #BellaBella are calling for immediate suspension & removal of an #RCMP officer stationed in the remote coastal community for reportedly making #racist comments on social media.

One screenshot shows the officer posing in front of the Union Jack in #colonial regalia with the comment, “Now, whats to be done about these pesky #natives stirring up trouble in the colonies…?”

https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/heiltsuk-nation-demands-removal-of-bella-bella-rcmp-officer-7364518

#BritishColumbia #SystematicRacism #BCpoli #CDNpoli #Indigenous