Friends of Wild Salmon Campaigns

Working to stop the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline

The Enbridge Pipelines would carry oil from the Alberta tar sands to a west coast supertanker port at Kitimat. The route crosses 1,000 streams and rivers, including the salmon-bearing Fraser and Skeena. Friends of Wild Salmon is working with its allies to get a full public inquiry for the Enbridge project, and to protect Skeena wild salmon from the grave threat it poses. Learn more

Sacred Headwaters Campaign

The Skeena shares its source with that of the Nass and Stikine, a remarkable alpine basin known as the Sacred Headwaters. Friends of Wild Salmon and others around the globe are working to safeguard the Sacred Headwaters' critical salmon and wildlife habitat from the threat of coalbed methane drilling. Learn more

Fish Farm Campaign: Protect BC’s North Coast from open-net salmon farms

Friends of Wild Salmon led a successful grassroots campaign to protect British Columbia's North Coast from the threat of open-net pen salmon farms. Salmon farms harm wild salmon by spreading sea lice and disease, and allowing the escape of non-native Atlantic salmon. Learn more