Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Colonization devastated biodiversity, habitats and human life in the Pacific Northwest

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Meaghan Efford, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia

Burrard Inlet, known traditionally as səl̓ilwəɬ (Tsleil-Wat) in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language, has been the heart of the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the səl̓ilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) since time immemorial.

The inlet is a water system that wraps through and around what we now know today as the city of Vancouver on the coast of British Columbia. The ecosystem is home to essential habitats for species like Pacific herring, Pacific salmon and harbour seals.

Burrard…

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