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Gene Drives – Engineering the Wild
Designed to push new genes through entire populations in the wild, gene drive technology raises serious questions about monitoring, reversibility, and human control of nature
by Lucy Sharratt
Profit, Genetic Diversity Loss, and BC's Salmon Collapse
The genetic diversity of wild salmon – a product of geologic instability over millennia – is both deeply threatened and critical to their resilience in a changing climate
by Loys Maingon
Protecting and Restoring Estuaries – From Geese
K’omoks First Nation lens on approaches to geese overpopulation means restoring estuary habitat, and harvesting geese to enhance community food security
by Odette Auger
When the Rubber Hits the Road... It Doesn't Disappear
Air and microplastic pollution from car tires is significant and environmentally pervasive – and as yet unregulated
by Gavin MacRae
Pesticide Dumping in Clayoquot Sound
While Grey whales mysteriously starve to death, salmon farms continue to dump hydrogen peroxide, shown to be acutely toxic to krill, in the waters off Vancouver Island’s west coast
by Dan Lewis
Biodiversity
Summer 2021
Maximum diversity yields deep resilience, while human attempts at control yield brittle and vulnerable systems. With the Holocene extinction well underway, we need to – quickly – listen, learn, and reverse our approach: adapt ourselves and our systems to the needs of the natural world instead of forcing it to adapt to us.
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