by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) – which is associated with lethal kidney and liver damage in Chinook salmon – is continually being transmitted between open-net salmon farms and wild juvenile Chinook salmon in British Columbia waters, according to a new genomics analysis....
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
“Following Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan’s December 17, 2020 decision to prohibit restocking of 19 fish farms in the Discovery Islands, this spring’s out-migration of juvenile salmon are the first to swim through a fish farm-free Okisollo Channel in over 25...
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Climate Action Now, General News
The big 5 Canadian banks have provided $700 BILLION in fossil fuel financing through loans and investments since 2016, while globally we are set to burn 50% more fossil fuels than is consistent with staying below 2 degrees warming. But our banks continue to finance...
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Climate Action Now, General News
As the world takes stock of how the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the most vulnerable, a new report from the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices warns that climate change will similarly worsen health inequities and significantly increase costs to Canada’s...
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | First Nations, General News, Indigenous Solidarity
We are all hurting from the shooting of a Tla-o-qui-aht mother by the RCMP who survived in a coma on the Mothers’ Day weekend. This was the third shooting by the RCMP of Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation members in the last year — including Chantel Moore and Julian...
by German Ocampo | Jun 20, 2021 | Earth Keepers Education, FOCS in the Media
When we are asked “paper or plastic” that choice involves poisoning oceans with oil-based plastics or devastating forests. We have a better choice. It’s time to move beyond single use paper and plastics to reusable and zero-water systems — and make throwaway go...
