is considered the outer coast of the great bear rain forest area and you know this well stretch of coastline there s almost a thousand uninhabited islands that still have a full suite of flora and fauna that s been evolving naturally over thousands of years these are some of the greatest opportunities to study biology island biogeography island life in its true natural state. we fly in an hour and a half moon with a frank hoover along the canadian pacific coast we re meeting with in mcallister. he then has asked us not to give our exactly occasion because what he s showing us is likely same unique that he doesn t want to give trophy hunters any cleans there s a number of wolf packs that are on these outer extreme islands all up and down the great bear rainforest and this is a unique one living in a very isolated island is was ever living true island life out here and isolation
out that heralds in the area the any animal we see during our time on the porcupine river is an eagle. much has changed up here in recent decades says harold ordinarily that salmon fishing season would be about to start but not this year the elders have to begin it to protect the salmon stocks fishing trawlers. they take too much fish in the ocean. they over harvest and all of us all of us that do that for money and then they don t leave nothing for for us native people saw. saw us we have to. we have to correct their mistakes. and know we we got this we that s our phone for thousands of years before they even come we traveled on the porcupine river for three hours to reach the border to the united states that s administered through in
people who are bringing their money to canada to keep it safe from the communists back home they buy homes for their family members and save up for a rainy day prices have skyrocketed. kerry start chuck and roland hurdler have set up an initiative they collect evidence and they started petitions they want the chinese symbols to disappear from the cityscape and from advertisement they want the chinese to assimilate well it s a sort of overwhelming it s it s you know i think it s as we ve talked before it s kind of it was like a military analogy is like an invasion you re being out and. you re catering to a group that s not really native to the area they haven t really earned their stripes worked their way up the ladder the first place where they were you know you know they got it. so how do you i feel great sense of empathy for that so native indians. they went through a lot of harsh up in the culture was deluded and. i m not responsible for what
chippy one. during our flight we immediately realize what harold to raise or and death first nation in the north are worried about. the complete destruction of the environment as far as the eye can see oil sand surface mining canada has the largest oil reserves after saudi arabia the designated oil fields of alberta cover a greater area than england and time lakes full of toxic sludge that regularly leaks into the athabaskan river. when meeting roy from the at a basket on first nation lawyer is like a river taxi driver there are no roads to fort chippewa neither on our way there we want to take pictures of the oil fields that lie hidden behind the plants along the