“It’s up to you”: A Ktunaxa perspective on water, memory and responsibility

When he speaks, he draws from two worlds — ancient and immediate. A member of the Ktunaxa Nation's Akisqnuk Band, Faro Burgoyne stood before an audience interested in water conservation to share wisdom: this land remembers, and water listens. Faro was the opening presenter at a Wildsight-hosted event this spring that focused on recreation and water health in the…

Wildsight news : Mountain caribou

BC Timber Sales promises to protect caribou habitat in Revelstoke-Shuswap region

May 20, 2025 by Eddie Petryshen

In an email to Wildsight, the BC Government's own logging agency has signalled its intention to stop new logging developments in core caribou habitat north of Revelstoke.

More than a trail: The ecological footprint of access

April 9, 2025 by Amelia Caddy

Resource roads offer easy access to B.C.'s backcountry — but at what cost to wildlife? We explore the ecological toll of roads and recreation, and how smarter management could help protect species like grizzlies and elk.

Send a letter: Get southern mountain caribou the protection they need

March 10, 2025 by Eddie Petryshen

In the last 20 years, over 310,000 hectares of deep-snow caribou habitat have been logged in B.C, destroying many of the old and mature forests that are essential to the survival of southern mountain caribou herds.

Environment Canada put on notice for 10-year delay in caribou protections

January 22, 2025 by Eddie Petryshen

Environmental groups, including Wildsight, have sent an open letter to the ECCC today calling on the Ministry to complete critical habitat mapping for caribou that's 10 years overdue.

B.C. logging practices ‘chipping’ away at caribou survival

December 17, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

Wilderness Committee and Wildsight have discovered legislative loopholes that enable extensive logging in critical southern mountain caribou habitat in B.C.

B.C. mountain caribou recovery plan

September 3, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

The B.C. mountain caribou recovery plan, legislated in 2007, protects more than 2.2 million hectares (5.4 million acres or 95% of high-suitability winter habitat) from logging and associated road building.

A walk through the Seymour River Valley

July 29, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

Photographer Bailey Repp documents what's a stake in the wild and remote forests of the upper Seymour River Valley, where logging proposals threaten old forests and core caribou habitat.

Give mountain caribou a fighting chance

June 27, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

Thousands of hectares of B.C.’s Inland Temperate Rainforest are currently slated for logging, including over 600 hectares in the Seymour River watershed considered to be core habitat for the Columbia North herd.

Caribou habitat is under threat in the Seymour River watershed … again

June 17, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

A new batch of clearcut proposals in the Seymour River watershed threaten over 600 hectares of endangered woodland caribou habitat, old growth forests and remnant patches of our Inland Temperate Rainforest.

What a flight over B.C.’s North Columbia Mountains tells us about the dire state of caribou habitat

March 25, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

Our plane hovers at 9,000 feet above the massive glaciers of British Columbia’s northern Monashee Mountains. It’s hot and cramped in this small, aluminium sky-box, which is currently being pushed around by rough summer winds.

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“It’s up to you”: A Ktunaxa perspective on water, memory and responsibility

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