The importance of biodiversity cannot be overstated. Protecting our ecosystems ensures a healthier planet for future generations. Let’s take action now to preserve the natural world.

#BiodiversityMatters #ProtectEcosystems #HealthyPlanet #FutureGenerations #NaturePreservation #EcoAction #SustainableFuture #ConservationNow #NaturalWorld #ActForNature (1/1)

2020.
When 3 Coast Salish Indigenous Chiefs invited me to join their small lead boat crew to meet up with other boats from Campbell River, Comox, Lund, Quadra Island & Discovery Islands to block some restocking of open net fish farms & demand that they get out of BC waters.

#VancouverIsland #FishFarmsOut #DirectAction #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveWildSalmon #DemandMPAs #BCpoli #CDNpoli #OceanGuardians #KeystoneSpecies #ecology #CampbellRiver #WildlifeConservation #ProtectEcosystems #environmentalist #AsianMastodon #OceanGuardians #Boating #Protest #BritishColumbia #PacificNorthwest #PNW

Tsahaukuse, George Quocksister Jr. is a #HereditaryChief of the #Laichkwiltach Nation and the son of Elizabeth and George Quocksister. He is a passionate advocate for the protection of #WildSalmon as a crucial part of his culture and the food security of his people, and is working to ban the practice of #SalmonFarming on the west coast. He lives in Campbell River, BC.

This is from our 2020 #DiscoveryIslands flotilla protest & restocking patrol with George & 2 other BC Indigenous Chiefs(Darren Blaney & Bill Wilson) from North Island regions.

The fight to get fish farms out of BC waters started in the late 80s & continues.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/video-appears-to-show-disfigured-farmed-salmon-1.4261637

#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #FishFarmsOut #DirectAction #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveWildSalmon #DemandMPAs #BCpoli #CDNpoli #OceanGuardians #SalmonPeople #KeystoneSpecies #ecology #WildlifeConservation #ProtectEcosystems #environmental

New video appears to show disfigured, unhealthy farmed salmon | CBC News

A video released online by an independent biologist and marine activist appears to show farmed salmon along the east coast of Vancouver Island with disfigured spines, lesions, swollen gills and unsightly growths.

CBC

If you support horses or any other non-native species living in our native parks, damaging precarious native habitats & ecosystems, you do not love our forests more than anyone else.

If you are happy watching the extinction crisis our native species are undergoing, with pest species being a big part of the problem, you are not a nature lover #SupportOurNativeAnimals #ProtectEcosystems

Brumby country: the fight over feral horses in the Barmah-Millewa forest
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/04/brumby-country-the-fight-over-feral-horses-in-the-barmah-millewa-forest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Brumby country: the fight over feral horses in the Barmah-Millewa forest

Tensions over plans to eradicate brumbies are running high in Barmah, but locals say they haven’t seen any horses since flood waters receded

The Guardian