Rochelle Baker, Local Journalism Initiative
Gina and Alex Thomas, members of the Tlowitsis First Nation Guardian Watchmen program, launch a research drone to investigate their traditional territory on the B.C. coast.
Image Credit: Markus Thompson
Canada is in the enviable position of having the longest coastline in the world.
But our trio of oceans is being battered by a storm of negative impacts, be it overexploited fish stocks, plastics pollution, degrading marine food webs, increasingly fragile coastal ecosystems or biodiversity loss accelerated by ocean warming and acidification.
Yet, at the very crest of their vulnerability, Canada’s oceans may stand to benefit from a potentially transformative decade.