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So loud it can kill a whale
Seismic blasting is threatening life in the Arctic. All life.
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Overcoming the Impossible: Safeguarding the Great Bear Rainforest
It’s Monday and I am standing in a room, waiting to speak at the media conference that announces the completion of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements – safeguarding an area of forest larger than Vancouver Island, bigger than Belgium. This day is twenty years in the making.
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Great Bear to the Boreal: 7 Ways to Shorten a Campaign for Forest Protection
We are getting much closer to the end of the long and winding road that has been the Great Bear Rainforest campaign. As I mentioned in a recent blog, along the way to completing the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements we have encountered pot holes, forks, stop signs, and late last year, a couple of big…
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Kwakwaka’wakw & Greenpeace: An Inevitable Alliance
Indigenous peoples are bound to the land; a connection created when our ancestors first walked the earth has been passed down from generation to generation. The desire to protect Mother…
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Return to Sonora: TimberWest in the Great Bear Rainforest
It was exactly 2 years ago today that I published a blog on Sonora Island – the southernmost end of the Great Bear Rainforest, within the traditional territories of Kwakwaka’wakw and Coast…
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Greenpeace apology to Inuit for impacts of seal campaign
A seal pup and a hunter — and a Greenpeace activist standing between them. That’s the image many indigenous inhabitants of Northern Canada still see when someone says the word…
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Why Enbridge is afraid of Ta’Kaiya Blaney
In my work for Greenpeace I meet special people pretty regularly. And by special, I mean people who do the most unexpected things in the most wonderful ways.