Wild Salmon Defenders Alliance
The Wild Salmon Defenders Alliance (WSDA) is composed of diverse concerned people, scientists, artists, groups and organizations dedicated to the protection of wild salmon as food security, as an essential climate regulator, as a keystone species that supports biodiversity, and as a valuable contributor to the cultural, spiritual, physical and economic well-being of Indigenous Peoples and all British Columbians.
They acknowledge and promote the constitutional obligation of governments and corporations to seek the consent of Indigenous titleholders on any and all industrial activity that may bring harm to wild salmon and its habitat. They also advocate for governments to have a genuine “Nation to Nation” relationship with Indigenous Peoples, as outlined in the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples.
WSDA strongly advocates for the application of the precautionary principle to support the resurgence of wild salmon, and that this principle be embedded in all environmental assessment processes, in federal and provincial legislation, and in trade agreements.
