Photo credit: Keith Williams
Together with Conservation Northwest, the Sinixt and the CCT fish and wildlife department are working to restore lynx to their natural, transboundary habitat. Learn more here.
Watch this stunning, slow motion video of a lynx being released into the wild.
Together with the Kootenay Native Plant Society and the City of Castlegar, we are working to raise local awareness of this important, blue-flowering root crop that our people called “the plant of plenty.” We cultivated extensive fields of the important root prior to agriculture and reservoir flooding. Recent research confirms that Sinxit women encouraged this sustainable food supplies in many ways.
Learn more here about this important four-legged native that once thrived in the thousands in our temperate rainforest territory. Please help us protect this dwindling species.
We are an Indigenous nation of the Colville Confederated Tribes and an Aboriginal People of Canada. We have rights in both countries.