Pacific Wild

Pacific Wild Conservation for the Great Bear Rainforest and beyond. Account managed from unceded Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territory. Pacific Wild works to protect B.C.

Pacific Wild Alliance is a leading voice dedicated to ensuring that the Great Bear Rainforest remains one of the planet’s greatest cradles of biodiversity. coastal wildlife and its habitat through scientific research, public education and informed advocacy. Pacific Wild produces award winning films, books and other public education materials that reach millions of people each year. We are a leader

in the development of non-invasive wireless video technology for wildlife research and educational programs.

🌊 Ocean Week means even more good news for the ocean! To celebrate Ocean Week, we're sharing twice as many positive ocea...
06/01/2026

🌊 Ocean Week means even more good news for the ocean!

To celebrate Ocean Week, we're sharing twice as many positive ocean stories as usual and all about the ocean!

🐟 Salmon restoration projects in B.C. are receiving a major funding boost to help restore critical habitat.
🦀 Divers in Sidney, B.C. are removing ghost gear from local waters, protecting marine life from abandoned traps and fishing lines.
🐚 Six First Nations have established a National Marine Conservation Area Reserve on the Central Coast of B.C..
🌿 Katzie-led wetland restoration in the Fraser River basin is reconnecting habitat for salmon and other species while advancing Indigenous stewardship.
🌱 A new seaweed biorefinery in Port Edward is supporting sustainable agricultural practices.
🐳 North Atlantic right whales are experiencing their best calving season in years.
🐋 A humpback whale has set a remarkable travel record, travelling from Brazil to Australia.
🧠 New research suggests s***m whale communication may be more complex than previously understood, offering new insights into whale intelligence and social behaviour.
🐢 Leatherback turtles are nesting again in Nicaragua.
🐧 Europe is building momentum for stronger krill protections in the Southern Ocean.
⚖️ A Dutch court has ruled bottom trawling in a protected area of the Dogger Bank unlawful.
🪸 Papua New Guinea has announced the largest marine protected area in its history.
🌴 Costa Rica is expanding its ecosystem services payment program into mangroves, coral reefs, wetlands, and marine areas.

💙 Across the world, these stories show that meaningful progress is happening. Every restored habitat, protected ecosystem, and scientific breakthrough brings us closer to a healthier future for the ocean. Ocean Week Victoria Ocean Week Canada - Semaine de l'océan Canada

❓What role do wolves play in the food web, and what happens when they are killed off and disappear?🦌 But when wolves dis...
05/30/2026

❓What role do wolves play in the food web, and what happens when they are killed off and disappear?

🦌 But when wolves disappear, herbivores like deer have fewer predators and become more bold and plentiful. Deer and elk are often sicker, with higher incidence of horrific afflictions like chronic wasting disease.

🌳 When wolves disappear, young shrubs have a hard time getting established because there are more herbivores eating them before they have a chance to grow. With fewer shrubs and trees, stream banks start eroding more quickly, the shape of rivers change, and salmon lose spawning habitat.
With fewer shrubs and trees, bears have fewer berries to eat,and birds have a harder time finding places to nest.

The forest becomes a quieter place.

🦊Without wolves, mesopredators like coyotes increase and dominate, outcompeting smaller-still predators like weasels, badgers, fishers, wolverines, red fox, lynx, bobcat, and otters.

The forest loses diversity.

🦅When wolves disappear, eagles, magpies, ravens and bears that relied on scavenging off wolf-kill leftovers to help them survive the lean winter months go hungry.

🐺 Without apex predators like wolves in the ecosystem, the whole food web starts to warp and collapse. For hundreds of years, the systematic extermination of wolves from the landscape across several continents has disrupted the natural balance.

But we know that it is not too late to change our approach.

📣Join us in demanding an end to the B.C. wolf cull. Take action: https://pacificwild.org/action/say-no-to-extending-the-b-c-wolf-cull/




Illustrations by www.poojaslaboratory.com

05/28/2026

🐙 Ocean Week Victoria starts in just TWO days! Join Pacific Wild as we kick off a week of ocean-inspired events, community action, and marine conservation celebrations across Greater Victoria. We’re starting this weekend with two exciting events:

🌊 Gorge Splashtacular Ocean Festival
🗓️ May 30 | ⏰ 12–4 PM
📍 Gorge Waterway Nature House
💲Free, no registration
💙 Hosted by Seaquaria + Gorge Waterway Nature House

🌊 World Ocean Day at Fisherman’s Wharf
🗓️ May 31 | ⏰ 11 AM–4 PM
📍 Fisherman’s Wharf
💲Free, no registration
💙 Hosted by Eagle Wing Whale Watching Tours + Greater Victoria Harbour Authority

Visit the Pacific Wild table to meet our staff and volunteers, learn about our marine campaigns, and discover how you can help protect B.C.’s marine environment. We’ll also have marine mammal specimens on loan from the University of Victoria and Royal BC Museum for a rare hands-on learning experience. More events throughout the week:

🌊 Ocean Opportunities Fair
🗓️ June 3 | ⏰ 4–7 PM
📍 3170 Tillicum Rd
💲Free, no registration
💙 Hosted by Gorge Waterway Nature House

🌊 Film Screening: Ocean with David Attenborough
🗓️ June 4 | ⏰ 6–9:15 PM
📍 Vic Theatre
💲Free | 19+ | Registration required | ⚠️ Almost at capacity
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-ocean-with-david-attenborough-and-panel-discussion-tickets-1988795528964?aff=oddtdtcreator
💙 Hosted by Pacific Wild with thanks to Revive Our Ocean, Silverback Films, National Geographic + Open Planet

🌊 World Ocean Day Festival at Beacon Park
🗓️ June 7 | ⏰ 11 AM–3 PM
📍 Sidney, BC
💲Free, no registration
💙 Hosted by Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea

🌊 Marine Ecology Exploration by Paddleboard
🗓️ May 30 | June 7 & 8
📍 Gonzales Bay
💲By donation | Registration required
🔗 https://www.oceanweekvictoria.ca/event-calendar
💙 Hosted by Mer Tales Ocean Journeys South Island SUP + Pacific Wild’s Marine Specialist

⁉️ Check out Ocean Week Victoria for the full 2026 calendar and Ocean Week Canada - Semaine de l'océan Canada for events across the country. Did you know that June is also Orca Month 👀

05/28/2026

Happy World Otter Day 🦦🌊

Sea otters once ranged across the entire North Pacific Rim, from northern Japan to Baja California. Today, they occupy only about half of their historic range after being driven to near extinction by the fur trade in the 1800s.

Sea otters are far more than just an iconic species, research shows they are both keystone species and ecosystem engineers. By foraging through eelgrass meadows in search of clams and other prey, sea otters help increase genetic diversity in eelgrass, making coastal ecosystems more resilient to warming oceans and acidification. Studies have also found that their presence can increase overall ecosystem biomass by 37% annually, supporting healthier and more productive marine food webs.

To learn more and support ongoing and future sea otter recovery efforts, check out our friends at the Elakha Alliance in Oregon. Founded by Tribal leaders, conservationists, and community advocates, they are working to restore sea otters to the Oregon coast. Their work focuses on science, community engagement, and building support for sea otter recovery to help create a more resilient marine ecosystem for future generations.

05/26/2026

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 For over a decade, the government of British Columbia, Canada, has been gunning down wolves and calling it caribou conservation. Now they want to extend the wolf cull for another five years.

🐺 After killing nearly 3,000 wolves since 2015, the Province has not committed to protect or restore the habitat that scientists — including the government's own cited researchers — agree is the only thing that will allow caribou to survive without ongoing human intervention.

💰 Killing wolves does nothing to address the industrial habitat destruction driving caribou toward extinction. It simply means killing wolves by the hundreds, year after year, at a cost of millions in taxpayer dollars (over $13 million to date) while the root causes of decline go unaddressed. It is unethical, unsustainable and scientifically questionable. The cull cannot be allowed to continue.

📣 Pacific Wild is one of several stakeholders that has been invited to submit for feedback on the proposed extension by June 15th. We believe the public deserves to be heard as well. That's why we're not responding alone. We're gathering your voices and bringing them directly to provincial decision makers.

👉 Visit our website, pacificwild.org, to submit your comments for us to share with B.C.'s decision makers. It only takes a few minutes, and it matters.

💙 Tell B.C. to end the wolf cull once and for all.

🎥 Ian McAllister and VisionHawk Films

🌊 Yesterday marked an exciting milestone for on the Central Coast of British Columbia.🐟 Coastal First Nations, alongsi...
05/23/2026

🌊 Yesterday marked an exciting milestone for on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

🐟 Coastal First Nations, alongside Parks Canada and British Columbia, have announced the establishment of Mia-yaltwa Ha’lidzogm hoon (pronounced: Me-ah-yall-twa Ha-lee-joh-gom hOH-own), meaning “Realm of the Salmon” and “Home of the Salmon”, a new National Marine Conservation Area Reserve and Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

🐋 This marine protected area reflects generations of Indigenous stewardship and deep connections to these coastal waters. The area supports salmon, herring, eulachon, whales, deep-sea coral, sponge reefs, coastal livelihoods, and the communities that rely on a healthy ocean. Fishing, tourism, and other marine activities will continue as neighbours, harvesters, local communities, scientists, tour operators, and governments work together through shared stewardship and joint management of the area.

💪🏽 Protecting these waters helps safeguard the abundance that coastal communities depend on, while supporting healthy ecosystems and strong local economies for Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities alike.

📸 Ian McAllister

🐟 Wild Pacific salmon need us now. The federal government promised to remove open-net pen salmon farms from British Colu...
05/18/2026

🐟 Wild Pacific salmon need us now. The federal government promised to remove open-net pen salmon farms from British Columbia (B.C.) waters by 2029, and this commitment must be honoured.

💪🏽 More than 120 First Nations across B.C. are calling for an end to open-net pen farming to protect wild salmon, ecosystems, and future generations. As Chief Ḥupačasatḥ Ḥawił Tsu Tsii In (Alton Watts) of the Hupacasath Nation writes in an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney:

🗣️ “...Salmon are our relatives. They are teachers. They are the thread connecting our communities to our ancestors and to every generation that follows. When the salmon suffer, so do we, and the salmon are suffering…Open-net pen salmon farming bears direct responsibility for accelerating that decline. It is also the one pressure on wild salmon that is entirely within the federal government’s power to remove.”

📣 The salmon are waiting. Add your voice today! Tell the federal government to keep its 2029 promise – phase out open-net pen salmon farms and invest in a future built on wild salmon recovery, healthy oceans, and thriving coastal communities.

🔗 Send a pre-written letter to the government today: https://pacificwild.org/action/protect-wild-salmon-prevent-open-net-salmon-farms-licence-renewal/
🔗 Send a 🌶️🌶️🌶️ pre-written letter: https://www.foff.ca/

Mark Carney Joanne Thompson - St. John's East David Eby

📢 Announcement! Join our FREE webinar on May 26: The Complex Lives of Wild Wolves 🌲🐺In honour of Endangered Species Day,...
05/15/2026

📢 Announcement! Join our FREE webinar on May 26: The Complex Lives of Wild Wolves 🌲🐺

In honour of Endangered Species Day, we’d like to shed light on the plight of wolves. Western Canada is one of the rare places in the world that still has packs of wild wolves roaming forests and coastlines, yet just south of the border wolves are listed as endangered in several American states. Ironically, wolves in western Canada are subject to largely unrestricted hunting, and are also being killed by the hundreds each year in the scientifically mis-guided attempt to restore populations of endangered woodland caribou.

Around the world, wolves are wrongly feared, persecuted, and treated as vermin. In some places, they’ve been hunted to near extinction. But the reality is that wolves are highly intelligent, social animals with complex inner lives and family dynamics, and they play an important role in keeping ecosystems healthy.

Join us May 26 for a live discussion about the lives of wild wolves, and why killing wolves is based on deeply flawed scientific and ethical arguments.

Listen in on the conversation between distinguished animal behaviourist Dr. Marc Bekoff and Pacific Wild co-founder Ian McAllister as they discuss:

🐺Stories from the field
🐺Science behind wolf sentience and emotional intelligence
🐺Ethical dimensions of lethal wildlife management
🐺Ecologically grounded solutions

🗓️ May 26 | ⏰ 5:30pm PT
📍 Virtual Event on Zoom
💲Free, registration required: https://bit.ly/3R3aVfI

If you can’t join us live, a recording will be available!

05/15/2026

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🌲🪓 A nearly thousand-year-old western hemlock has been found in the Upper Tsitika valley — and it faces the chopping blo...
05/15/2026

🌲🪓 A nearly thousand-year-old western hemlock has been found in the Upper Tsitika valley — and it faces the chopping block.

This ancient hemlock, measuring nearly 2 meters across, was originally discovered by our team last year in cutblock TA 1375, which BC Timber Services recently auctioned off for logging. At the time we thought the tree might be as old as 800 years, enough to warrant legacy tree status.

Recently, Registered Forest Technologist Greg Herringer returned to collect a core sample from the tree to obtain an accurate age. It turns out that this ancient hemlock is 921 years old!

The tree is healthy and could easily thrive past 1,000 years old — yet its life is threatened by clear-cut logging for short-term human profit.

To put this into context, the oldest intact building in Canada, the Maison LeBer-LeMoyne in Montreal, was built in 1669 and has therefore only existed for 357 years, a little over a third of the lifespan of this tree. This small stone house is listed as a National Historic Site, yet the ancient hemlock could be felled for pulp tomorrow.

When this hemlock seed first touched earth in 1105CE and began sending tendrils to anchor it in place, the secret to making paper from plant pulp was just arriving in Europe from China. It would be another 75 years before Europeans started mounting ship rudders onto the stern of their boats, which would eventually allow European colonists to complete cross-ocean journeys through rough seas and reach North America. This tree pre-dates the first European to eat a potato, or smoke to***co. This tree pre-dates Christopher Columbus. This tree has stood as a silent witness to hundreds of years of colonization, disease and destruction on Turtle Island. Will it survive long enough to see a return to sustainable, holistic forest management?

Tsitika cutblock TA1375 contains many other ancient cedars and hemlocks like this one, in addition to at-risk species like marbled murrelets and oldgrowth specklebelly lichen, bear dens, and other important ecological values.

This forest is a library of life.

Despite this, BC Timber Sales (BCTS) auctioned off cutblock TA1375 in the upper Tsitika Valley in March, ignoring opposition from scientists, community members, and multiple First Nations people whose territories overlap with the Tsitika watershed.

We continue to flood the mailboxes and phone lines of Premier Eby, Forest Ministry Parmar, Environment & Parks Minister Davidson, and provincial decision makers to demand this rare ancient forest be protected. Join us in demanding an end to logging B.C.’s old-growth and primary forests.

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