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Parks Canada staff have confirmed thermal activity on Hotspring Island in Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area Reserve and Haida Heritage Site on Haida Gwaii. Water flow and thermal activity at hot springs on the island previously stopped following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Haida Gwaii in late October 2012. Hot water seeps were observed above the surface near two of the hot pools, but below the high tide line. Thermal activity has been detected in all the areas of the island where it had previously occurred, but water flow has not returned to previous levels.

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A large share of chinook salmon heading to the Fraser River each summer may have to be earmarked for endangered resident killer whales if the whale population is to recover.

This study estimates that 87 whales in the three resident pods consume between 12 and 23 per cent of the average 300,000 chinook that head for the Fraser River each summer. Each whale needs about 670 fish a day and 42 per cent more if it is a nursing female.

"Our research indicates that southern resident killer whales easily consume 100,000 chinook each year and, depending on their winter diet, their requirements could easily be double that," said co-author Erin Ashe.


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Four young Sitka black-tailed bucks fell upon good luck ...

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On June 11, 2010, the Gwaii Haanas Marine Area was officially designated a National Marine Conservation Area Reserve and Heritage Site under Canadian legislation, thus making the area a world leader in integrated land-sea conservation management. This is a tremendous milestone in the efforts to protect one of the most bio-diverse marine
environments on Earth. Through the establishment of the National Marine Conservation Area Reserve, Gwaii Haanas has become the first place in the world that is protected from the top of the mountains, to the bottom of the sea!

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