From wolf packs to bald eagles and sea lions, every creature in the Great Bear Rainforest has its own family and every species has the right to celebrate Family Day. 🌿🐺🦅🌊

Happy Family Day from all of us at Pacific Wild! 😀

#Wildlifeconservation #GreatBearRainforest

Today we celebrate #love in the Great Bear Rainforest. 💕 Happy #ValentinesDay from the Pacific Wild team! 🐾

Fact or Fiction?

#MarineProtectedAreas #MPAs #CanadaConservation

#Definition : The Spillover effect.
Di Lorenzo et al., 2016: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#FactorFiction ?:
Fiction: “MPAs do not help biodiversity.”
Fact: “Survival rates of NZ dolphins in the Banks Peninsula area have increased by 5.4% since the creation of the Banks Peninsula Marine Mammal Sanctuary.” Gormley et al., 2012.

⁉️Do you know what #MPAs stand for?
Drop your answer in the comments below ↓ and join us on our socials for next week’s MPAs campaign🌊: linkin.bio/ig-pacificwild

#Canada 🇨🇦 B.C. trawlers dump thousands of salmon, depleting orcas' food source: wildlife group, by Dirk Meissner — Pacific Wild coastreporter.net/national-news/… via Coast Reporter

600 bears shot in one year? This is a disgrace, pure and simple. We need to invest in more rehabilitation facilities and fund better training and a major culture shift at COS.

After a record year for bear killings in B.C., calls for a gentler approach intensify. justine_hunter article in the The Globe and Mail highlights concerns.
Questions arise about the expertise of COs in recognizing rehabilitation potential. Citizens fear unnecessary wildlife deaths.

2023 has been an incredible year! It has been a privilege to reflect over the projects Pacific Wild has embarked upon, the successes we’ve celebrated, and the future endeavours we have to look forward to!

Watch “What We Accomplished in 2023” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/893933345

Since the provincial and federal governments were tasked with ensuring caribou recovery in 2003, over 8000 square kilometres of critical caribou habitat has been logged.

Watch “B.C. Caribou Habitat Destruction & Population Decline Timelapse” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/846440862

$800K spent culling fallow deer. $10.1K spent killing wolves.

What is Canada doing with taxpayer dollars?

Read more here: globalnews.ca/news/10185169/…

#SaveBCWolves #Wildlife #BC #BritishColumbia

📷️ via Global News

Documents obtained through a freedom of information request outlined the government of B.C. spending of over 10 million taxpayer dollars to date on the aerial gunning of nearly 2,000 wolves over the last eight years. #SaveBCWolves

Read more: cbc.ca/amp/1.7065846

⁠Only 1 week left to comment on the Grizzly Bear Stewardship Framework!
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Speak up for the future of grizzly bears in B.C. by asking for the public response period to extend to November 15, 2023.

Sign the petition: ⁠tinyurl.com/me36rm8e⁠

Photo Credit: Ian McAllister

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are areas used to protect biodiversity, ecosystems, and culturally important areas. Join Norm Hann and Bruce Kirkby’s journey by paddleboard across Hecate Strait and through several protected and proposed MPAs in B.C. here:

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Show that you #CariboutWolves by sending a letter asking to the Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Transport and ask Minister Guilbeault to stop issuing permits to shoot wolves from helicopters: pacificwild.org/action/tell-mi…

Show that you #CariboutWolves by sending a message to your MLA in B.C! Tell your MLA you want an Endangered Species Act for British Columbia, and that habitat protection should be the number one action taken to protect caribou: pacificwild.org/campaign/do-yo…

Show that you #CariboutWolves by sending a letter to the Federal Minister of the Environment & Climate Change and tell the federal government to step in to enact emergency habitat protection measures to save B.C caribou: pacificwild.org/campaign/do-yo…