Whale in the Door

A Community Unites to Protect BC's Howe Sound

Tag: Glass sponge reefs

Protecting the Exquisite Glass Sponge Reefs

glass sponge reef

I received an email from Glen Dennison – citizen scientist,  marine life activist and scuba diver. In Whale in the Door, I wrote about Glen’s first dazzling encounter with the glass sponge reefs – common during the Jurassic period and thought to have become extinct 60 million years ago. Today they are found only on BC coasts and there are several reefs in Howe Sound/Atl’kitsem. “Loved reading your book,” wrote […]

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This Living Salish Sea

This Living Salish Sea

A few days ago, I watched this powerful movie in North Vancouver. Written, directed and produced by Sarama, it explores the beauty of the Salish Sea – a sea that knows no borders – home to more than seven million people on the west coasts of Canada and the U.S. Spectacular underwater photography reveals the living treasures of the Salish Sea and the grassroots resistance to the corporate fossil fuel […]

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