The Conservation Alliance

Currently, our more pressing work is to protect the Taku Watershed from industrial development.The Taku Watershed covers nearly two million hectares of diverse ecological zones - ranging from boreal and temperate forests to alpine meadows and craggy mountain tops, to low lying sloughs. There are no roads in the watershed. Right now, the British Columbia government is negotiating with the Taku River Tlingit First Nation over land use designations across their territory, much of which is in the Taku. BC wants to designate areas in the lower watershed open for mining and access routes. The mines would be just upstream from the richest salmon rearing habitat in the entire watershed. The region is known to have acid-generating rock which can render the water toxic to salmon and other aquatic life  if that rock is exposed to air.  The Taku is home to globally significant populations of large mammals, and diverse flora.... Read More