🌎 Take action and support the Southeast Alaska Tribes in safeguarding vital river ecosystems from gold and copper mines: avaaz.org/SoutheastAlaska The Canadian government has officially silenced the voices of their neighbors, the Southeast Alaska Tribes—clearing the way for rapid mining development that threatens the Taku, Stikine, and Unuk Rivers. These watersheds sustain Southeast Alaska's temperate rainforest, are vital to Indigenous Peoples, and are among the world’s last remaining wild salmon streams. You can help stop this. Demand that the Canadian government recognize the Tribes’ rights to the rivers they have stewarded for millennia, and engage with them in meaningful consultation on all development decisions that impact their lands, ways of life, and generations to come. 🟢 Together SEITC, Mullu, and Re:wild are calling on the world’s leaders at #COP16 to recognize and safeguard Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge, traditional ways of governance, and management of our planet’s ...