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"Animated text: Wild About Wolves
Part 1: Re-Entering Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
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[Black and white trail camera footage of wolves in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve]
Animated text: The Greater Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is home to an active population of wild wolves.
Animated text: They make their living on the same lands we do.
Animated text: First Nations have coexisted with wolves for thousands of years. The animal is sacred and important to their culture.
<> In our culture they are protectors in our territory system.
The chiefs have their wolves in order to protect them… Wolves are very sacred to our people.
"Animated text: Levi Martin, Kaamath
Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation Elder
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<> We have ceremonies around wolves. Songs and dances. Headdresses that replicate wolves and what they mean to us.
"Animated text: Derek Peters, Tliishin
Ha'wiih (Hereditary Chief) Huu-ay-aht First Nation
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[Morning scenery at Pacific Rim National Park]
We recognize that as Huu-ay-aht people, the balance they bring to the wildlife and the forest.
Animated text: Human-wolf conflict however, is on the rise in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.
<> In the past like we never ever seen any wolves in the communities, or close to the communities
[Black and white trail camera footage of wolves in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve]
<> You always heard them. So you knew they were there. But you never really saw them.
There were very little encounters. So there’s a big difference between then and now…
they’re visible, they’re following people, they’re eating dogs… There’s something going on.
"Animated text: Barney Williams
Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation Elder
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Animated text: Humans have taught wolves unnatural behaviours, making it harder for people and wolves to live in harmony.
<> It's not what's going on with the wolves, it's what's going on with us.
"[Plastic cup floating in marsh]
[Dog off leash beside owner walking in park]
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Animated text: Litter, dogs off leash, and people getting too close have made wolves less wary and associate humans with food sources.
<> I have seen the impacts of human interactions with the wolves a lot in the past
and it’s always the wolves that end up paying the price.
"Animated text: Dennis Hetu
Toquaht First Nation
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[Text on roadside sign saying: "Human food kills wildlife"]
Animated text: Parks Canada launched the Wild About Wolves project to research ways to coexist.
[Community members in conference room listening to Wild About Wolves presentation]
<> If we’re going to help the wolves, we need to work across boundaries…and also across disciplines.
[Trail camera photos of wolves in Parks Canada office]
<> There's a human side to this, there's a First Nations and Indigenous side to this,
and then there's an ecological side.
We can bring together analyses and statistics and try to support these broader questions.
"Animated text: Adam T. Ford
Assitant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Wildlife Restoration Ecology
The University of British Columbia
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"Animated text: All footage of wildlife
was captured by remote wildlife cameras.
Learn more about the ""Wild About Wolves"" project by visiting parkscanada.gc.ca/wildaboutwolves
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