In North Vancouver Island, Indigenous locals share the area’s rich wildlife on their terms – Canada Voices

28 November 2024

On a midsummer morning, Sherry Moon navigated her boat through thick fog and a maze of deep green islands in British Columbia’s coastal Great Bear Rainforest.

“We’re going to my favourite place in the world,” the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation guide said on our way to the remote Thompson Sound, or Xakwikaan, a recently declared Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) where few are able to visit. Moon, who has been coming here much of her life, says bears were not always easy to come by. Now, largely thanks to her community’s 30-plus years of advocacy to close the area’s fish farms, an increase in wild salmon has brought them back.

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