Liber Ero Postdoc @ the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries @ubcoceans.bsky.social & @salmonscience.bsky.social • National Geographic Explorer • UBC Geog & UC Santa Cruz alum • Settler • She/her • 🏳️🌈 • saracannon.ca • bit.ly/decolonizing-conservation-2
Sara Cannon, PhD
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This is great news! Thank you to everyone who helped to sound the alarm or contacted their reps to fight this. I’m no sure what will happen to the sensors already pulled from off the coast of Washington, but the rest of the network is saved for now.
Keep fighting! It matters!
Two former advisors to the federal government called out Prime Minister Mark Carney for slashing environmental rules and ignoring experts in climate science and policy. thenarwhal.ca/carney-canad...
UPDATE: The deadline for public feedback has been extended to July 22. More info in the thread ⬇️
Theres a bit of good news for coral reefs, writes the
@nytimes.com. A study, led by WCS and presented at #OurOcean, identified 5,800+ square miles of climate-resilient ocean in 72 countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/c...
Grad school on your vision board to 2027? Check out this list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for the 2027-2028 academic year!
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#ResourceWednesday
Please read Dr. Ginexi's summary of the OMB proposal linked below and submit your *personalized* public comment by July 13! The @standupforscience.net portal makes this incredibly easy: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...
Decisions about roads, mines, ports, railways, and energy infrastructure shapes ecosystems for decades. In many cases, negative impacts are difficult --or impossible-- to reverse.
Public consultation on the federal government's proposed major-project reforms closes June 7. Make your voice heard!!!
This thread gets longer and longer. People are speaking up about the risks and consequences of weakening -- some say "eviscerating" -- environmental protection in Canada.
The government shut out its own climate science and policy advisors, they say, while gutting Canada’s environmental protections in favour of oil and gas
The federal government's plan to fast-track major infrastructure development is at odds with its new $3.8-billion strategy to protect 30% of Canada's lands & waters by 2030, say UBC, UVic & U of T researchers.
ca.news.yahoo.com/canada-major...
Impact assessments prevent harm before it occurs. Circumventing the process before we understand the risks is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.
A running thread of articles, blog posts, and more about the Government of Canada’s proposal to fast-track “major projects” and weaken federal environmental laws and regulations.
