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How Canada's landscapes are changing.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Exploring and Documenting Endangered Ancient Forests
TJ Watt • British Columbia • 2021
Ancient forests that took centuries to grow can disappear in days. TJ Watt documented old-growth logging in some of British Columbia’s most ecologically significant landscapes, bringing attention to clear-cuts linked to mapping errors and capturing rare before-and-after images of forest loss.
His work helped bring public attention to places many people never knew were at risk.
Kehkashan Basu • Ontario • 2021
Young people are often told they will inherit environmental challenges. Kehkashan Basu's work focuses on giving them a role in addressing them today.
Through Green Hope, students turned climate concerns into hands-on community projects while developing the confidence and skills to lead change in their own communities.
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Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors
Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees
Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss
Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems
Constructing Foundations: Reimaging Housing Policy To Account For The Climate Crisis Across Inuit Nunangat
Jenine Otto • Inuit Nunangat / Nunatsiavut • 2022
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Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors
Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees
Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss
Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
Across Inuit Nunangat, homes and infrastructure are being tested by forces they were never designed to withstand.
Jenine Otto documented how thawing permafrost, coastal erosion, and colonial housing systems intersect in Nunatsiavut, bringing local experience into discussions about how northern housing can better meet the realities of a changing climate.
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
Empowering Children And Youth As Environmental Stewards
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Documented old-growth logging in remote areas of Vancouver Island and Quatsino Sound
Captured before-and-after imagery showing rapid forest loss over time
Identified and photographed one of BC’s largest Sitka spruce trees
The Mount Meager Glaciovolcanic Cave Project
Christian Stenner • British Columbia • 2021
Beneath Mount Meager’s melting glaciers lies a hidden volcanic world few people have ever seen. Christian Stenner led the first safe entry into these newly exposed cave systems, collecting samples, measuring active fumaroles, and testing NASA-linked robotics.
The expedition offered a rare glimpse into an extreme environment that may hold clues about life in places far beyond Earth.
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Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors
Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees
Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss
Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems
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Photography supported wider awareness campaigns through Ancient Forest Alliance
Images contributed to public and media attention around old-growth protection
Work helped support BC’s commitment to protect 30% of provincial lands by 2030
Protection initiatives now advancing ~200,000 hectares of endangered ecosystems
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Ancient Forest Alliance advocacy and public awareness campaigns
Conservation financing work through the Nature-Based Solutions Foundation
Collaboration with Indigenous communities on new protected areas and IPCAs
Media distribution and exhibitions expanding national and international reach
On The Edge: A Story Of Climate Change And Cultural Resilience
Kaitlyn Van De Woestyne • Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories • 2023
The shoreline at Tuktoyaktuk is moving. As rising seas and thawing permafrost eat away at the land, Inuvialuit community members are documenting changes that threaten homes, roads, and places of cultural importance.
Kaitlyn Van De Woestyne's film captures a community responding to a landscape being transformed in real time.
Taylor Roades • Yukon • 2024
As alpine ice patches melt across the Yukon, they are revealing hunting tools and cultural artifacts that have remained frozen for thousands of years.
Working alongside First Nations partners, Taylor Roades is documenting these discoveries and the race to record them before exposure to air and moisture causes them to deteriorate.
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Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors
Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees
Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss
Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems
Mapping Forest Vulnerability to Wildfire-catalyzed Vegetation Change
Ellen Whitman • Alberta / British Columbia • 2024
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Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors
Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees
Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss
Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
Not every forest recovers from wildfire in the same way.
Ellen Whitman is identifying regions where climate change may be altering how forests regenerate after fire, providing new insight into how western landscapes could change and how communities can prepare for those shifts.
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
The Ice Patch Project
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors
Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees
Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss
Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems
Fighting Fire With Food
Kira Hoffman • Gitanyow Nation, British Columbia • 2023
Fire once helped shape the landscapes that fed Gitanyow communities.
Working alongside the Gitanyow Nation, Kira Hoffman documented the return of
cultural burning after more than a century of suppression, demonstrating how
carefully planned fire can support food and medicinal plants while reducing wildfire risk.
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Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors
Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees
Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss
Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
ACTIVE PROJECTS
Indigenous Science, Technology, And Society Research And Training
Jessica Kolopenuk • Peguis First Nation, Manitoba • 2021
Indigenous knowledge has long contributed to scientific understanding, yet Indigenous peoples have often been excluded from the institutions that shape research.
Jessica Kolopenuk is helping build Indigenous-led approaches to science and technology while creating space for Indigenous governance within fields historically shaped by colonial systems.
Dorian Gaboriau • Eastern Canada / Quebec • 2025
Long before written records, forests were leaving clues behind.
Dorian Gaboriau is studying charcoal and pollen preserved in lake sediments to reconstruct centuries of wildfire and vegetation change, tracing how boreal forests have responded to past environmental shifts and what those lessons might
mean for the future.
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Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors
Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees
Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss
Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
Deciphering the Natural Variability of Past Forest Landscapes and Fire Regimes: a Meta-analysis on Lake Sediment Records
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors
Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees
Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss
Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems
Disposable Forests: The Boreal Forest Sacrificed for Softness
Annie Sakkab • Boreal Forest, Canada • 2025
The boreal forest is one of the world's largest intact ecosystems, yet parts of it are being logged for products designed to be used once and thrown away.
Annie Sakkab is documenting the connection between everyday paper products and industrial logging, tracing how consumer demand shapes some of Canada's most important forest landscapes.
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Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors
Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees
Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss
Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia
Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment
Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions
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