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Odette Auger - Logging, climate crisis killing once great Cedar forests on Vancouver Island (APTN, August 1, 2024)
Andy Engelson - How Gitanyow Law Could Save Salmon in Northwest BC (The Tyee, January 9, 2025)
Erica Gies - As logging intensifies forest fires, Wet’suwet’en fight to protect old growth (Mongabay, September 23, 2024)
- ‘We can feel our ancestors’: one First Nation’s fight to save Canada’s old forests (The Guardian, September 23, 2024)
Isabelle Groc - The magic in the mud: sandpipers’ migration superfood (Canadian Geographic, February 21, 2025)
Arno Kopecky - ‘It’s path-breaking’: British Columbia’s blueprint for decolonisation (The Guardian, October 9, 2024)
- Great Bear Sea’s blueprint for doing business with nature (Corporate Knights, October 23, 2024)
Lesley Evans Ogden - Getting along with the neighbours: how to coexist with grizzly bears (Knowable magazine, May, 2025)
Jane Palmer - Bear hair and fish weirs: Meet the Indigenous people combining modern science
with ancestral principles to protect the land (Live Science, October 14, 2024)
- Indigenous knowledge helps explain bird population changes in Canada’s BC (Mongabay, February 3, 2025)
Dan Pierce – Trouble in the Headwaters (The Narwhal, June 2025)
Jimmy Thomson - An ocean of noise pollution (The Globe and Mail, May 26, 2024)
Laura Trethewey - The Coming Collision Between Whales and Tankers on B.C.’s Coast (Hakai magazine, October 15, 2024)