After two weeks of negotiations between more than 50 countries, the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) ended last Friday without establishing a High Seas Treaty — once again leaving more than two-thirds of the global ocean unprotected. But important progress was also made, which the Only One community of supporters has helped push for. World leaders are closer than ever before to finalizing the treaty, and there’s reason to be optimistic that the next negotiation will be the last step in the nearly two-decades–long process. We can’t let up the pressure now, and we need you with us! Can you help build momentum for the coalition to protect the High Seas by sharing our petition with your network? We’re just shy of our goal of 75,000 signatures.
Restore salmon in the Snake River.
Wild salmon are among the Pacific Northwest’s original residents. Their historic abundance and influence on the region is difficult to imagine today — feeding endangered orcas, birds, other fish and wildlife; building legendary forests, delivering ocean-sourced nutrients across millennia to the waters and lands of the Northwest. And since time immemorial, Tribal nations have shared a deep and reciprocal relationship with salmon.
Unfortunately, salmon and the many benefits they bring to Northwest people and ecosystems are at risk of disappearing today. Many populations have already been lost. Of those that remain, many swim on the brink of extinction.
After decades of advocacy, the Nez Perce, other Native tribes, and conservation and fishing advocates have opened a critical window of opportunity to protect and restore wild salmon populations through one solution — breaching dams in the Lower Snake River.
