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Watershed Sentinel @watershedsentinel.ca · 6d

TAKE ACTION NOW.
DEMAND A HALT TO THE AUCTION OF TA1375 to @rparmarbc.bsky.social, @davidebybc.bsky.social

Contact Ravi Parmar: 250 387-624, [email protected] & David Eby [email protected]

#Tsitika #oldgrowth #bcpoli @ancientforestbc.bsky.social #clearcut #logging
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Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · 9d

For those working with the nervous system or vagus nerve, we’re familiar with these responses: • Fight – Mobilizing energy to confront or overpower a perceived threat. • Flight – Using energy to esc...

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · 9d

Appeasement is a #nervous-system response to power imbalance, compliance for survival when resistance feels unsafe. It’s collective, adaptive, and costly. Regulation helps us endure, but only dismantling oppressive #systems brings real safety and liberation.

#opression #trauma #marginalization

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Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · 9d

Honoured to walk among thousand-year giants. Soil rich from millennia of decay and renewal; thick moss and lichen drape the trunks; fallen logs shelter species. 98% of #forests like this have been logged and shipped away in 100 years of #colonization on Vancouver Island.

#oldgrowths #bcpoli

Ongoing Colonization: Land Exploitation & Complicity

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · 9d

Feeling vulnerable sharing this: I wrote about land-exploitation as ongoing #colonization, grief, accountability, and the urge to re-member our relationship with the Earth...

#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism

How extraction continues colonization and why we must confront our complicity.

Where Hope Takes Root | Watershed Sentinel

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Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · 24d

Three weeks into Social Media Lead at Watershed Sentinel, I reported from the #Walbran blockade. My first piece is live. Would love your read & share. To the Walbran blockaders, standing strong like cedars, your courage is living hope. Thank you.💚

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Watershed Sentinel @watershedsentinel.ca · 24d

They know enforcement will come, and still, they stand.
Meet the defenders of Vancouver Island’s last ancient forests. Read our #Walbran piece on courage, community, hope.

@ancientforestbc.bsky.social @wildernews.bsky.social
#OldGrowth #BCForests #FairyCreek #bcpoli

Blockaders in B.C.’s Walbran Valley stand against old-growth logging, defending life, community, and the forests that sustain us all.

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Watershed Sentinel @watershedsentinel.ca · Oct 2

Read our latest piece by Odette Auger on Peehee Mu’huh, sacred land at risk from a mine now under construction bit.ly/ThackerPass. Watch & share the film by @ricochetmedia.bsky.social, @therealnews.com and indiginews.com. Get the Mag in your mailbox. bit.ly/WS-store

#IndigenousRights #ThackerPass

(FULL FILM) Mining the Sacred: Indigenous nations fight lithium gold rush at Thacker Pass

YouTube video by Ricochet Media

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Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Oct 1

Everywhere on Earth, we’re fighting to protect our only home. In the Walbran Valley, people are holding the line against old-growth logging: cedars, salmon, water, climate. This isn’t just about trees; it’s about life. Every forest needs defenders.

#ProtectOldGrowth #Walbran #ClimateJustice

Redirecting...

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State of Salmon Report - Pacific Salmon Foundation

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Sep 27

Good news! State of Salmon 🐟 shows Chinook & coho on East Vancouver Island well above average. Huge thanks to local streamkeepers, watershed groups & First Nations Guardians. Since 2021, the @psfca.bsky.social invested $2.3M in habitat restoration.

#Salmon #BritishColumbia #Yukon #Chinook #Coho

A broad-scale evaluation of the state of all six species of Pacific salmon found in British Columbia and the Yukon, including Chinook, chum, coho, pink, sockeye, and steelhead.

stateofsalmon.psf.ca

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Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Sep 19

Menhirs, cèdres, fontaines, saumon : une même conversation à travers les continents. Si vous vous faisiez silencieux·se, que dirait votre territoire ? Voici mon dernier article, de la France à l’île de Vancouver. Lisez et dites-moi ce que vous entendez !
#animisme #lieu #souricer #france #gaule

L’âme d’un lieu

Écouter le monde ici et là : registres distincts, un chant commun.

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Listening to the Souls of Place

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Sep 19

Menhirs, cedars, pilgrim paths, salmon runs; one conversation across continents. If you got quiet today, what would your place say? I wrote about listening to land and lineage from France to Vancouver Island. Read & tell me what you hear !

#Land #Animism #Celts #Earth #Energies #Dowsing #France

Teachings from here and there; different textures, one continuum.

Why here? On home, belonging, and relocating with intention

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Sep 15

A personal reflection on what truly makes a place feel like home.
#sustainability #community #home

A personal reflection on what truly makes a place feel like home.

Elders beyond humans Who do we turn to for wisdom? I didn’t grow up around emotionally reliable adults to lean on. Almost by instinct, I sought out older friends, sometimes decades ahead of me, who ...

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Sep 15

Elders beyond humans
I didn’t grow up with reliable elders, so I turned to the land.
The forest, the stars, the owl at night, the rhythm of the sea,
they’ve become my teachers.
The land is our oldest ancestor. The stars are our kin.
When we listen, their wisdom awakens within us....

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Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's not famine... It's starvation...

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · May 27

The Gift of Stillness

By the sea at sunset, the sky turns pink and pearl. Distant snowy peaks reflect in the still tide. Otters tumble, fish leap, a seal exhales, a hummingbird hovers like a prayer.

Stillness holds me. Life gathers here, playful, sacred and whole.

#wildlife #otter #canada

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · May 16

Eco-anxiety - and even #burnout - is a summons to remember. To feel deeply. To realign with what truly matters. To return to ourselves. Beyond forest walks, #eco-anxiety beckons us to awaken to something far more ancient: the reclamation of our #ancestral #kinship with the living world.

Beyond the Surface: Ecoanxiety at Its Root

Remembering our place, role, and responsibility in the web of life amid ecological grief.

Grieving in a fragmented world: How modern culture fails to hold our pain

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Apr 3

Prolonged Grief #Disorder is now a thing—a category to be treated and medicalized. But what if #grief, #anxiety, and #depression aren’t disorders, but #natural responses to a world stripped of connection, #ritual, and #community? What is the cost of reducing them to mere labels?

As I slowly emerge from the most devastating year of my life, I find myself diving deeper into my grief, held by the land, my people, and the conscious presence of my ancestors within and around me.

Traverser le deuil dans un monde brisé : Réapprendre à accueillir la peine

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Apr 3

La psychologie occidentale échoue à voir les racines systémiques de notre souffrance. Comment être "sain" dans un monde en perdition ? Plutôt que d’affronter ces crises, nous anesthésions, diagnostiquons, médicamentons. Comme si de rien n’était, pour rester productifs !

#deuil #guérison #systemique

Alors que j'émerge lentement de l'année la plus dévastatrice de ma vie, je plonge plus profondément dans mon deuil, portée par la terre, ma communauté et la présence consciente de mes ancêtres en moi ...

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In Our Bones: Ancestral Healing as Re-membering

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Mar 5

Our connection to our ancestors became an intellectual construct rather than a lived experience... The visceral, breathing, reciprocal relationship has been thinned to a mere echo. And in this thinning, we reinforce the very illusion that keeps us unmoored: the belief in our separability.

#healing

There is a quiet ache in the modern world, a longing that tugs at the edge of our collective consciousness.

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Our Territories, Our Future: Relocalizing to Regenerate

Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Feb 23

Relocalizing is not just logistical shift but a return to ancestral wisdom—honoring the land, restoring balance, and fostering resilience. By acting locally while thinking globally, we weave regenerative models that uplift communities, inspire, and co-create a thriving future. Also in 🇫🇷

Recent global events, particularly the trade policies introduced by President Trump in the United States, have underscored the urgent need to rethink our economic models.

The Coming Collapse: Sensitivity Will Determine Survival

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Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Feb 23

As our civilization faces increasing systemic collapse, it may be those who have retained their ability to perceive complexity who will offer the wisdom needed to navigate what lies ahead.

The Biology of Sensitivity

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Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Feb 19

Solving the climate change and biodiversity crises needs bold, local #solutions for real impact. One Earth’s database highlights projects from our global partners in three areas: renewable energy, nature #conservation, and regenerative #agriculture.

Together, we can solve the climate crisis | One Earth

One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

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Hazel Volk @hazelvolk.bsky.social · Feb 11

Prioritizing extraction and unsustainable industries, wrecking the planet for profit—who cares, as long as a few cash in? Our Alice Springs-based environmental group, protecting the Australian desert for 40+ years, just lost its funding. One more decision among millions to keep destroying #Earth.

ALEC defunded by CLP government

The Arid Lands Environment Centre is a strong and trusted voice for the conservation and responsible management of the land, water and natural resources of Central Australia.

www.alec.org.au