Not sure if this is really tool use by #wolves but it's pretty damn clever
#ecology #evolution #wolf #Heiltsuk #BC #britishcolumbia #canada #wildlife
#Heiltsuk
Near-sinking barge off BC coast stokes fears over oil tanker threats
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Heiltsuk #Haíɫzaqv #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCCoast #OilTankerBan #MarineSafety #ClimateCrisis #Politics #Economy #CoastalProtection #OilAndGas #The14
https://the-14.com/near-sinking-barge-off-bc-coast-stokes-fears-over-oil-tanker-threats/
In #BritishColumbia, the #Indigenous #Haíɫzaqv or #Heiltsuk Nation has been battling an invader: the invasive European green #crab. It gobbles up native clam and crabs and damages fish habitats. To control this crab, they set up traps containing herring and sea lion meat.
But they noticed that something or someone was stealing these traps, bringing them ashore, and grabbing the bait. Even traps placed in deep water.
It turns out the thieves were #wolves.
https://nautil.us/wolves-caught-on-camera-fishing-for-the-first-time-1248516/
Via #CTV - Nov 17, 2025
Researchers have captured vdo footage of wild #wolves in #BritishColumbia pulling crab traps out of sea by their lines 2 eat bait inside, in 1st evidence of possible tool use by the animals
Report released Monday in the scientific journal #EcologyAndEvolution by researchers #Kyle Artelle and #PaulPaquet says they placed cameras on the beach aimed at #Heiltsuk #FirstNation crab traps to work out what was repeatedly damaging them
A first child has been born in Bella Bella, on the Híɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation territory, in about 13 years.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heiltsuk-baby-born-heiltsuk-land-9.6937387
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Un premier enfant est né à Bella Bella, sur le territoire de la nation Híɫzaqv (Heiltsuk), en environ 13 ans.
// Article en anglais //
The Guardian: After 150 years, a prized box returns to an Indigenous nation in Canada: ‘I felt like royalty traveling with it’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/01/bentwood-box-canada-indigenous-nation
“If these are truly your lands, where are your stories?”
The Guardian: An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/12/canada-indigenous-heiltsuk-constitution
#Indigenous #HeiltsukNation #Heiltsuk #LandBack #CanPoli #BCPoli
Clean Up the Beach in #solidarity with #Heiltsuk Nation
June 8 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join RAVEN and #Surfrider for a World Oceans Day beach cleanup, where we’ll be fundraising for Heiltsuk Nation’s legal challenge that aims to protect #marine #ecosystems from coast to coast to coast.
This year, we’re choosing to engage in #community reciprocity not just for our own local #watersheds, but as an act of solidarity with Heiltsuk Nation, whose own beach cleanup — following the Nathan E. Stewart spill — is so much more complex.
So, come out to #CloverPoint in Victoria on Sunday, June 8, 2025 from 11am-1pm for a community-powered beach cleanup. Together we are aiming to fundraise $2,000 for Heiltsuk’s legal challenge on #WorldOceansDay.
https://raventrust.com/event/clean-up-the-beach-in-solidarity-with-heiltsuk-nation/
#YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #BeachCleanup #Volunteers #CommunityWork #Environmental
‘Historic referendum’: Heiltsuk Nation votes on written constitution https://globalnews.ca/news/11007261/heiltsuk-constitution-referendum/
#Heiltsuk #HeiltsukNation #IndigenousRights #IndigenousGovernance
Members of the #Heiltsuk Nation in #BellaBella are calling for immediate suspension & removal of an #RCMP officer stationed in the remote coastal community for reportedly making #racist comments on social media.
One screenshot shows the officer posing in front of the Union Jack in #colonial regalia with the comment, “Now, whats to be done about these pesky #natives stirring up trouble in the colonies…?”
#BritishColumbia #SystematicRacism #BCpoli #CDNpoli #Indigenous
🌊 #Canada has moved to protect #Pacific coral reef that scientists say ‘shouldn’t exist’
The discovery was made after #FirstNations tipped off ecologists about groups of fish gathering in a fjord off #BritishColumbia
For generations, members of the Kitasoo Xai’xais and #Heiltsuk #FirstNations, two communities off the Central Coast region of #BritishColumbia, had noticed large groups of rockfish congregating in a fjord system
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/canada-moves-to-protect-coral-reef-that-scientists-say-shouldnt-exist #Environment #News
#Canada moves to protect #CoralReef that scientists say ‘shouldn’t exist’
Discovery was made after #FirstNations tipped off #ecologists about groups of fish gathering in a fjord off #BritishColumbia
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 #corals and #sponges.
"The following year, the team mapped #LopheliaReef, or #q̓áuc̓íwísuxv, as it has been named by the #Kitasoo Xai’xais and #Heiltsuk 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, #Inuk oral historian Louie Kamookak compared #Inuit 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."
#IndigenousWisdom #Environment #WaterIsLife #PacificOcean #DeepSeaEcosystems #NoDumping
‘Koeye feels like home’: Heiltsuk land-based camp immerses youth in language and culture
Koeye Camp has been running near Namu, B.C., making a difference in the lives of hundreds of Heiltsuk youth over the past 25 years.
#globalnews #Canada #BCFirstNations #Heiltsuk #Indigenous
https://globalnews.ca/news/10015374/heiltsuk-culture-community-camp/
‘Koeye feels like home’: Heiltsuk land-based camp immerses youth in language and culture
Koeye Camp has been running near Namu, B.C., making a difference in the lives of hundreds of Heiltsuk youth over the past 25 years.
#globalnews #Canada #BCFirstNations #Heiltsuk #Indigenous
https://globalnews.ca/news/10015374/heiltsuk-culture-community-camp/
‘Koeye feels like home’: Heiltsuk land-based camp immerses youth in language and culture
Koeye Camp has been running near Namu, B.C., making a difference in the lives of hundreds of Heiltsuk youth over the past 25 years.
#globalnews #Canada #BCFirstNations #Heiltsuk #Indigenous
https://globalnews.ca/news/10015374/heiltsuk-culture-community-camp/
Global News BC: ‘Koeye feels like home’: Heiltsuk land-based camp immerses youth in language and culture https://globalnews.ca/news/10015374/heiltsuk-culture-community-camp/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Indigenousculture #BCFirstNations #Indigenous #Heiltsuk #Canada
#Hokulea update. They left #Alaska after visiting our #Tlingit relatives, visited #Haida rellies in Old Massett, #Tsimshian cousins in Prince Rupert then down the coast through #Haisla and #Heiltsuk territory. Next stops are in #Kwakwakawakw territory then down into the #SalishSea. Following a route used for centuries by #Indigenous peoples. I’ve done this route many times as a young fisherman but not for many years.
H/t to RevDaniel on Twitter:
"O #Canada, our home ON #native land."
An adapted drawing by #JenniferAdomeit inspired by an original design (2000) by #MelvinWindsor of the #Haida - #Heiltsuk, called “Unity”.
This large pile of used oil tanks is a monument to the success of the Heiltsuk Nation’s heat pump program. More than 300 installed in Bella Bella in the past 18 months or so! #Heiltsuk #ClimateAction #reconciliation
It’s hard to leave Bella Bella on a clear, sunny day like this. The Heiltsuk Nation rich with culture, food, laughter & climate action. I’m grateful to have been a guest here these past few days. #Heiltsuk #reconciliation #PassiveHouse
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