Canada’s Great Bear Sea conservation project will be one of the largest protected marine areas in the world

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The western coast of Canada has forests and waters unlike anywhere else. British Columbia is home to grizzly bears and sea lions, and towering spruce and cedar trees. Nearly a decade ago, government leaders and Indigenous groups came together to conserve an area the size of Ireland known as the Great Bear Rainforest. Now, they plan to replicate that success off shore with a project called the Great Bear Sea. The World’s Carol Hills speaks to Christine Smith-Martin, who is the executive director of Coastal First Nations, an alliance of Indigenous Nations in British Columbia.  

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