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From YouTube: MARCH 3 2020 Statements Bob D'Eith
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
5th Session
41st Parliament
A
Pepper
maple
ridge
mission.
Thank
you
very
much.
Honorable
speaker
today
is
World
Wildlife
day.
Scientists
predict
that
more
than
a
million
species
are
on
track
for
extension
extinction
in
the
coming
decades
and
due
to
accelerated
climate
change
in
global
inaction,
Wildlife
was
facing
threats
like
never
before
recently.
In
Australia
one
and
a
quarter
billion
died,
animals
died
in
brush
fires
and
for
these
animals
that
survived
many
of
their
former
homes
are
now
uninhabitable.
A
Now
we
should
recognize
that
threats
to
wildlife,
but
we
should
also
celebrate
the
efforts
that
are
being
made
to
protect
species
in
our
province
in
an
historic
agreement
with
federal
and
provincial
governments.
First
nations
and
fish
farms,
Marine
Harvest,
Canada
and
sermonette
Canada.
All
17
fish
farms
in
British,
Columbia's
Brout
in
our
archipelago,
will
either
close
or
be
moved
in
an
effort
to
create
a
migration
path
for
a
wild
salmon
and
also
last
century
saw
over
a
90%
decrease
in
the
caribou
in
the
piece
region.
A
The
provincial
government
originally
recently
signed
an
agreement
with
the
West
Moberly
and
Souto
nations
to
protect
caribou,
and
this
agreement
will
protect
700,000
hectares
of
caribou
habitat.
Now
the
local
level
groups
throughout
the
province
are
also
working
tirelessly
to
defend
our
wildlife.
In
my
riding,
the
Alouette
River
Management
Society
has
done
fantastic
work
for
decades
to
protect
salmon
in
the
upper
Alouette
river
and
the
Kanaka
education
and
environmental
partnership,
or
keeps
our
doing
great
work
for
salmon.
A
They
installed
a
fish
fence
in
the
Alouette
River,
and
this
is
a
great
resource
for
our
community
for
classrooms
and
researchers
wanting
to
see
salmon
close-up
in
their
natural
habitat.
Of
course,
First
Nations
have
been
protecting
wildlife
for
over
a
millennium,
and
this
work
continues.
The
kate
c
nation
is
working
to
restore
the
blue,
creek
habitat
and
upper
Pitt
River,
and
the
Kwantlen
nation
currently
has
programs
integrating
science
and
data
with
traditional
indigenous
knowledge
of
their
lands
to
help
salmon
conservation.
Mr.