Left: Kw'yutsmalayc (Cecil Moody) helping out at the raising of the Snuxyaltwa Totem Pole at Talyu, South Bentinck Arm, 19 August 2009. Nearby is Talyu Hot Springs, where during the mid 1990s Kw'yutsmalayc constructed a fine wooden cabin for bathers. The four views above were photographed in 1996 by a European visitor, Philipp Küchler, a founder of the Council for Northern Primaeval Forests. The Nuxalk are featured on the German website naturschatz.org which educates people about the destruction of the old growth forests and its devastating effect on the Nuxalkmc. Clearcutting continues in 2010 in South Bentinck, despite this being part of the Great Bear Rainforest. Only the Hot Springs Valley remains untouched, elsewhere the clearcuts continue ever more voraciously as the world runs out of timber and primaeval forests. European activists stood with the Nuxalk at ISTA over a decade ago. They initiated a market campaign to force an end to the greedy clearcutting of Nuxalk Territory. For them, the continued destruction of Nuxalk forests and biodiversity is a grave disappointment.

 

NUXALK STRONG – NUXALK FOREVER