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AutisticMumTo3‘It was like the wild west’: meet the First Nations guardians protecting Canada’s pristine shores | Canada | The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/it-was-like-the-wild-west-meet-the-first-nations-guardians-protecting-canadas-pristine-shores" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/it-was-like-the-wild-west-meet-the-first-nations-guardians-protecting-canadas-pristine-shores</a><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/WildWest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WildWest</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/NuxalkGuardianWatchmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuxalkGuardianWatchmen</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/IndigenousLeadershipInitiative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousLeadershipInitiative</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Kitasoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kitasoo</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/XaiXais" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XaiXais</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/EnvironmentalDNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalDNA</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Nuxalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuxalk</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/KitasooXaiXaisGuardianWatchmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KitasooXaiXaisGuardianWatchmen</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> moves to protect <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoralReef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoralReef</a> that scientists say ‘shouldn’t exist’Discovery was made after <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a> tipped off <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecologists</a> about groups of fish gathering in a fjord off <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishColumbia</a>by Leyland Cecco in Toronto Fri 15 Mar 2024"On the last of nearly 20 dives, the team made a startling discovery – one that has only recently been made public."'When we started to see the living corals, everyone was in doubt,' says Cherisse Du Preez, head of the deep-sea ecology program at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 'Then, when we saw the expansive fields of coral in front of us, everybody just let loose. There were a lot of pure human emotions.'"Despite existing in absolute darkness, the lights of the submersible captured the rich pinks, yellows and purples of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corals</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sponges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponges</a>."The following year, the team mapped <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LopheliaReef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LopheliaReef</a>, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/q%CC%93%C3%A1uc%CC%93%C3%ADw%C3%ADsuxv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#q̓áuc̓íwísuxv</a>, as it has been named by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kitasoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kitasoo</a> Xai’xais and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Heiltsuk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Heiltsuk</a> First Nations. It is the country’s only known living coral reef."The discovery marks the latest in a string of instances in which Indigenous knowledge has directed researchers to areas of scientific or historic importance. More than a decade ago, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inuk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inuk</a> oral historian Louie Kamookak compared <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inuit</a> stories with explorers’ logbooks and journals to help locate Sir John Franklin’s lost ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. In 2014, divers located the wreck of the Erebus in a spot Kamookak suggested they search, and using his directions found the Terror two years later."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/canada-moves-to-protect-coral-reef-that-scientists-say-shouldnt-exist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/canada-moves-to-protect-coral-reef-that-scientists-say-shouldnt-exist</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousWisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousWisdom</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PacificOcean</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaEcosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepSeaEcosystems</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoDumping</a>

Laurie MacBrideI re-published this yesterday in order to add a new tag but forgot to re-add the attachment. So here's trying again, with apologies...Another image from our summer <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/boating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boating</a> trip: late afternoon, mid-July, Bottleneck Inlet in <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Kitasoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kitasoo</a> territory. Needed a hurricane hole and it proved a good one as we waited out a gale. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GreatBearRainforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreatBearRainforest</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GreatBearSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreatBearSea</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCcoast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BCcoast</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/iPhoneography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iPhoneography</a>

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