GGGI Small Grant (2021) - Coastal Restoration Society (Canada)
Project Summary
Coastal Restoration Society (CRS), Canada’s largest environmental remediation non-profit, supports the resource stewardship goals of Indigenous, municipal, provincial and federal governments across Canada. Since 2018, CRS has completed dozens of large-scale industrial environmental remediation projects in Indigenous territories throughout Canada. CRS projects include ghost gear retrieval, anthropogenic debris removal, pollution and petroleum spill response, derelict vessel salvage, aquatic invasive specie mitigation and control, abandoned aquaculture site remediation, and emergency climate change response.
As part of CRS’ GGGI small grant project, the team conducted territorial rehabilitation through the removal and responsible disposal of ghost fishing gear within the First Nation Traditional Territory of Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia. Working in partnership with First Nations communities, this project has successfully increased awareness of the impacts presented by ALDFG, and has offered space to build environmental connections and community. Activities included identifying areas of high levels of ALDFG for removal, retrieving ALDFG from sites of high ecological and cultural importance, and working with local recycling and disposal centers to ensure the proper recycling, upcycling, or disposal of any recovered material.
Although the videos below and the work they portray were not funded through the GGGI Small Grants Program, they are representative of the work that Coastal Restoration Society (CRS) has done with Indigenous communities across Canada, and are shared with permission from CRS.
