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Ocean conservation non-profit based in British Columbia, Canada. Stay connected by signing up for our “Newsletter and Updates” https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/4CA021FC644FD710 Banner photo credit: Ken Szeto.

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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

🌊🐋 The whales need us — and now is the time to act.
Our beloved Southern Resident Killer Whales' survival depends on bold, urgent protection. You can help.

✅ Sign the petition win.newmode.net/livingoceans...

#SaveTheOrcas #SRKW #ActNow #livingoceans
📷Sandy Buckley

02.12.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Blue Friday over Black Friday?
Because the ocean deserves more than our leftovers. 🌊💙
See how you can take action → blue-friday.ca
#BlueFriday #OceanAction

26.11.2025 22:01 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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PM Carney to erode greenwashing protections. Tell him to back off!
You can tell him no! Send your letter to our PM, key cabinet members, MPs and critics urging them to keep hard-won robust greenwashing protections in place. Click the link tinyurl.com/yt968sap or visit @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social

25.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Support ocean protection by choosing #BlueFriday. All proceeds from the #BlueEarthBox are donated to ocean NGOs and causes. Free worldwide shipping included.

tinyurl.com/2py65je7
#Artterra #OceanPositive

25.11.2025 00:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DEMAND ACTION FROM NORTH AMERICAN GROCERS - SeaChoice

📣Tell Costco, Loblaw, METRO, Pattison Food Group, Sobeys, and Walmart Canada to do their due diligence — and keep products linked to human rights and environmental abuses off their shelves!
www.seachoice.org/take-action/
@seachoice.bsky.social

20.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sea wolves in B.C. might just be tool users—video shows them pulling up crab traps by their buoy lines to get at the bait. tinyurl.com/dkx9nxz6
#AnimalBehavior #SeaWolves #BCWild

18.11.2025 17:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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We stand with you. Keep Tierra del Fuego pristine! Watch/share the video. drive.google.com/file/d/1ufoC...

13.11.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Keep the pressure on Loblaw and all major retailers for safer, more sustainable seafood.

Add your name — and help keep the momentum going.

www.seachoice.org/take-action/

#EthicalSeafood #ConsumersDriveChange #SeafoodProgress @living-oceans.bsky.social @ecologyaction.bsky.social

13.11.2025 17:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Researchers find microplastics in the tails of lobsters caught off Nova Scotia “It's not just that the plastic pollution crisis is outside and … removed from us,” said LeBlanc, an environmental scientist who grew up in Nova Scotia. “It seems like it's moving from the ocean floor...

🚨New study: Lobsters in Nova Scotia commercial fisheries—100% tested—contained microplastics in their edible tail meat.
Plastic pollution isn’t abstract—it’s in our food chain.👉 tinyurl.com/mr3fx9zw or visit stalbertgazette.com and search for the title.
#OceanPollution #Microplastics #SeafoodSafety

12.11.2025 22:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#OceanExposures 2025 Living Oceans Society puts on the Ocean Exposures Photo Contest annually. We know you protect what you love, so we view this event as an opportunity for people to get out into nature, find out more ab...

LAST CHANCE 🌊📸 You get to decide!

Help us choose the 2025 Sea Huggers' Choice Award winner by voting for your favourite photo from this year’s contest. 🐋✨

💙 Explore the stunning submissions, celebrate the photographers, and cast your vote by Oct 31, 2025.

👉 Vote here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCvX1F

30.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Canada must mandate corporate accountability Companies need to be forced to prevent human rights abuses and environmental destruction throughout their supply chains.

“Voluntary corporate accountability doesn’t work.”
Time for Canada to enforce mandatory laws that prevent corporate harm, not just hope companies “do the right thing.”
#CSR #HumanRights #Environment
policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/corp...
@davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @abovegroundngo.bsky.social

29.10.2025 15:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The Shocking Truth About Salmon
YouTube video by Cloud9MediaLDN The Shocking Truth About Salmon

🎥 Watch the new film from Cloud9MediaLDN and The Green Londoner, “The Truth About Farmed Salmon”, and dive into why it matters—for wild salmon, our oceans, and the food on your plate. ℹ️👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uI1...

28.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What a night in Nanaimo! 🎉
Thanks to everyone who came out for @oceanfilmfestivalcanada — and congrats to our card bundle winner! 🙌
Next stop: North Vancouver, Nov 6! Get your tickets → www.oceanfilmfestivalcanada.ca
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28.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Rare 'septopus' believed to have been found on shore of B.C.'s Pender Island “I could tell from the images — because they were very good images of at least some of the anatomy of the animal — that it wasn't something that was local or at least known to be local,” Cook told CBC...

🌊 A deep-sea wonder showed up onshore: A “seven-armed” octopus was found—one of very few sightings near the surface.

The ocean still holds secrets; we need to protect them. #OceanMystery #MarineConservation #BCCoast
Link tinyurl.com/5n84jepv

23.10.2025 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Members submitting acceptance of Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, adopted at the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) on 17 June 2022, marks a major step forward for ocean sustainability by prohibiting harmful fisheries subsid...

The Agreement entered into force on 15 September 2025 once two-thirds of WTO members the Protocol of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies by depositing an “instrument of acceptance” with the WTO. The full list of acceptances can be found here: www.wto.org/english/trat...

22.10.2025 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#OceanExposures 2025 Living Oceans Society puts on the Ocean Exposures Photo Contest annually. We know you protect what you love, so we view this event as an opportunity for people to get out into nature, find out more ab...

🏆 The Sea Huggers Choice Award goes to the photo with the most votes—and you decide who wins! 💙
Take a look at this year’s stunning entries: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCvX1F

Vote for your favourite and let the community know what moved you.
Voting runs Oct 1 – 31, 2025.
#SeaHuggersChoice #OceanPhotography

15.10.2025 22:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We had such a great night at the Victoria showing of @oceanfilmfestivalcanada 🎉 Huge congrats to our raffle winner who took home a gorgeous handmade quilt 🧵💙 Next stop: Nanaimo on Oct 26! Tickets are going fast → www.oceanfilmfestivalcanada.ca
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Special thx to Donna Campbell, quilt creator!

10.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Check this out. 48. The Costs of Exploitation and Sustainability with Don Gillmor, Vince Beiser, Marcello Di Cintio, and moderated by David Beers @writersfest.bc.ca
Link writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
Date/Time: Oct 24 @10am
Venue: Performance Works

09.10.2025 16:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
B.C. First Nations want meeting with Carney about salmon, need for open-net farm ban “Bob Chamberlin, chair of the First Nations Wild Salmon Alliance, which includes more than 120 First Nations, said the federal government should create a First Nation-led plan to protect the wild fish...

ICYMI B.C. First Nations are urging a transition to a better model: one that is not extractive in nature, that respects Aboriginal rights, advances reconciliation, protects the environment, and sustains the economy that depends on wild salmon.
👉 Read more: tinyurl.com/mtf2k5ut

08.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
First Nations group calls for urgent action to save Southern Resident Killer Whales “The cultural significance is different for each nation, but for us, the W̱SÁNEĆpeople, it would have a tremendous impact because it’s like losing a piece of your family tree,” he says. “And when you ...

📢 First Nations are speaking up—for #SRKW
Southern Resident killer whales face devastating threats. A group of First Nations are demanding urgent action on salmon restoration, vessel noise, pollution—and protection for this iconic population before it’s too late.
tinyurl.com/4b9e63xn

06.10.2025 20:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#OceanExposures 2025 Living Oceans Society puts on the Ocean Exposures Photo Contest annually. We know you protect what you love, so we view this event as an opportunity for people to get out into nature, find out more ab...

It’s that time again—you get to decide!

Help us choose the 2025 Sea Huggers' Choice Award winner by voting for your favourite photo from this year’s contest. 🐋✨

💙 Explore the stunning submissions, celebrate the photographers, and cast your vote by Oct 31, 2025.

👉 Vote here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCvX1F

02.10.2025 00:55 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hands off the tanker ban, Danielle!!
BREAKING: Alberta to act as proponent for a new 'Northern Gateway' pipeline, says Premier. That's likely because no pipeline company would touch the project with a barge pole. TMX isn't even at full capacity yet!! Read the full CBC article. tinyurl.com/4re7vn5c

02.10.2025 00:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We were thrilled to join the 45th Annual BC Rivers Day at the Quatse Salmon Stewardship Centre on Sept 28! 🌊🐟
Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate the importance of healthy rivers and salmon. 💙
#BCRiversDay #ProtectRivers #SalmonStewardship

29.09.2025 23:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fellowship Details - Liber Ero Fellowship Program Eligibility Eligible scholars will be natural or social science researchers, who have received their PhD prior to the start of the fellowship. Applicants should propose to be based at a Canadian conse...

🌱 Calling all emerging conservation scientists! Liber Ero Fellowships are now open for post-doctoral researchers based at Canadian institutions. Are you working on pressing conservation issues and want to lead applied, evidence-based research?
🎯 Learn more & apply: liberero.ca/fellowship-d...

29.09.2025 20:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The high seas are the world's largest crime scene! Read the full story here 👉https://tinyurl.com/bdfb7vru or visit CBC website and search for title.

25.09.2025 20:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🌊💙 Love the ocean? Stay in the loop!
From breaking news to conservation wins, our newsletter brings the latest on ocean protection straight to your inbox.

🐋 Don’t miss out—subscribe now: livingoceans.org/media/newsle...

24.09.2025 20:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Welcome to the Campbell River Mirror We at the Campbell River Mirror are proud to present to you, Campbell River News. We are your local community resource for events happening in Campbell River, BC.

⚠️Three north Vancouver Island First Nations are sounding the alarm. Near Port Hardy, researchers recently found juvenile salmon heavily infested with sea lice—hundreds per fish. Click link or visit campbellrivermirror.com and search for title. tinyurl.com/48dm3atu

18.09.2025 17:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New study exposes systemic under-estimation of the impacts of pathogens amplified on salmon farms. DFO designed a system that excludes relevant science from its own evaluations of disease agents and their impact on our wild salmon.

12.09.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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2025 Peter A. Larkin Award Lecture - Hybrid Event Join the 2025 Larkin Award winner as he reflects on 50 years of salmon science and shares insights into the future of these remarkable fish

Save the date: Oct 2, 2025, 6pm – The Peter A. Larkin Award Lecture with Dr. Thomas P. Quinn speaking on Changing Themes in Salmon Conservation. Hybrid format: Vancouver or online.
Free registration via Eventbrite. Dive deep into science, salmon, and conservation’s future. tinyurl.com/muuxtrkp

11.09.2025 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Next ESG Flashpoint: Supermarkets And Species Loss “Shareholder resolution votes act as a barometer for investor sentiment,” said Kelly Roebuck, vice chair of Environment Tasmania and Sustainable Seafood campaign director at Living Oceans. “Last year,...

Supermarkets are emerging as the next ESG battleground—under increasing scrutiny over their role in biodiversity loss. Shareholder activism and an OECD complaint are pushing nature to the top of the corporate responsibility agenda.
Is species loss the next big ESG risk? tinyurl.com/yy4mzacw

10.09.2025 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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