Both of these wild fish species play a huge ecosystems-wide role in British Columbia. Herring feed bears, wolves, raptors, shorebirds, marine mammals, and of course, the wild salmon that feed endangered orcas and other cetaceans and creatures from mink to sea lions. They also are critical to Indigenous ways of life, both as food source and part of 10,000+ year old cultures. Through your gifts, Pacific Wild has pushed for ending open net salmon farms throughout B.C., a moratorium on fishing the declining Salish Sea herring population (the last functioning population in B.C.), and Indigenous stewardship - including an accurate count of salmon populations in central coast streams - of these precious communities of biodiversity.

#MarineProtectedArea #30x30

Did you know that if Canada protected all of the proposed areas in the Marine Protected Area Network proposed in the Great Bear Sea, that our country will have met and will likely exceed our climate change commitments known as '30x30'? Canada agreed to the goal to protect 30% of our oceans by 2030 as part of the United Nations push on limiting the effects of climate change, and British Columbia has some of the most biodiverse waters in the country in the region encompassing from the north end of Vancouver Island to Alaska.

YOUR IMPACT BEGINS TODAY

Thank you for helping Pacific Wild protect wildlife and their habitat along Canada's Pacific Coast. Your support is what makes our conservation achievements possible in one of the last remaining coastal temperate rainforests on the planet.

TO LEARN MORE:

Please visit us at: www.pacificwild.org

Phone our Victoria, BC office: 250-380-0547

Email us at: donations@pacificwild.org