Restoring Elephant Hill
In 2017, nearly 200,000 hectares of Secwépemc territory near Kamloops, B.C. was burned in the Elephant Hill wildfire. That, alongside other nearby fires, destroyed vast areas of forest habitat and left the land vulnerable to soil erosion and landslides. In some areas, the soil was so badly scorched that natural regrowth of trees and plants was impossible.
WWF-Canada has since been supporting SRSS in a multiyear partnership that advances Indigenous knowledge systems and approaches to forest management. To find out more about why Indigenous-led wildfire restoration works, we spoke with SRSS CEO, Angela Kane.