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  • Chum salmon are lurking underwater under an overhead growth, with light streaming down and small pebble rocks seen below them.
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    Canada’s Policy for the Conservation of Wild Pacific Salmon

    2025 December 122025 December 12

    A framework for safeguarding salmon diversity and resilience.

    Read More Canada’s Policy for the Conservation of Wild Pacific SalmonContinue

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    The rights of the river: could granting legal personhood for the Fraser River estuary spur its protection?

    2023 September 52026 May 12

    In New Zealand and Quebec, communities have successfully pushed for some form of Rights of Nature laws to be accorded to ecosystems around them.

    Read More The rights of the river: could granting legal personhood for the Fraser River estuary spur its protection?Continue

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    Canada’s Wild Salmon Policy: an assessment of conservation progress in British Columbia

    2017 August 242024 July 8

    This paper, lead by scientists at Simon Fraser University and co-authored by two Raincoast biologists, finds that Canada’s Wild Salmon Policy has failed to improve the conservation of Pacific salmon since its adoption in 2005…

    Read More Canada’s Wild Salmon Policy: an assessment of conservation progress in British ColumbiaContinue

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