Wilderness Recreation

Wildsight is raising awareness of industrial tourism practices across B.C.’s backcountry. We continue our coalition building to oppose unsustainable exploitation of the backcountry. Our work to stop the Jumbo Glacier Resort proposal is a flagship of opposition to unsustainable industrial tourism throughout the B.C. wilderness. At least 14 percent of B.C.’s land base is now under tenure to helicopter recreation operations such as heli-skiing. Unfortunately most of these tenures are in the habitat of the endangered mountain caribou.

Wildsight is assessing helicopter recreation companies in an effort to find ways to reduce environmental impacts. We have produced and distributed a brochure on responsible motorized recreation and are working with the region’s motorized recreationists to eliminate motorized access in critical wildlife habitats and wilderness areas.

Wildsight continues to educate the tourism sector and the government about the contradiction between their marketing of “Super, Natural British Columbia”, and their simultaneous sacrifice of wilderness and wildlife.

Wildsight is also engaged in the global movement to encourage responsible environmental and social behaviour on the part of the world’s corporations.