Trina Moyles
@trinamoyles.bsky.social
Yukon-based journalist and author of BLACK BEAR, LOOKOUT, and WOMEN WHO DIG. Northern correspondent for The Walrus. Articles for CanGeo, The Narwhal, The Globe and Mail, and more. Read my work at: www.trinamoyles.com
Announcing finalists for the 2026 #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction— congratulations to Richard Kelly Kemick, Robert Moor, Trina Moyles, Julian Brave NoiseCat, and Dan Werb. $75K winner announced Nov 10 at the #WTAwards writerstrust.com/WestonPrize
As southern Ontario faced extreme heat and smoke from wildfires, migrant workers and allies rallied in Toronto, calling for the provincial and federal governments to better protect labourers on the frontlines of a changing climate. thenarwhal.ca/migrant-work...
‘Working past exhaustion’: migrant workers rally over Ontario’s extreme heat | The Narwhal
About 50 migrant workers and allies gathered in Toronto, calling on the Doug Ford government to better protect labourers as the climate changes
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"But I also don’t think we can give ourselves a pass on harvesting" - Elizabeth MacDonald, manager of fisheries with the Council of #Yukon First Nations www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Chinook salmon in decline, worsened by Bering Sea heatwave a decade ago: study | CBC News
Yukon River Chinook salmon numbers have been in a decline for decades, and a new study from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says a warming of the Bering Sea — where these salmon...
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This article by @trinamoyles.bsky.social in @thenarwhal.ca is magical and quietly hope-giving in yet another week of abysmal news.
The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 2mo agoWhat is it like to live with grizzly bears? Reporter Trina Moyles travelled to Haines Junction, Yukon, to find out. It has one of the highest concentrations of grizzlies in the territory. Here's her story about coexistence, with incredible photos by Sonny Parker thenarwhal.ca/grizzly-bear...
What is it like to live with grizzly bears? Reporter Trina Moyles travelled to Haines Junction, Yukon, to find out. It has one of the highest concentrations of grizzlies in the territory. Here's her story about coexistence, with incredible photos by Sonny Parker thenarwhal.ca/grizzly-bear...
How a Yukon town lives alongside grizzly bears | The Narwhal
Haines Junction sits in one of Yukon’s densest grizzly bear corridors. Indigenous Knowledge and decades of prevention are helping people and bears coexist
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Can confirm, not AI! Sonny Parker is the photographer behind our latest story featuring some incredible pictures of grizzly bears in Haines Junction. Editor Lindsay Sample spoke to him about how he manages to take intimate pictures of the massive mammals.
This is a wonderful piece by @trinamoyles.bsky.social in @thenarwhal.ca, accompanied by amazing photos. I once had a close encounter with a grizzly near Haines Junction. Fortunately, I was in a car and it was not, so we were both completely safe. They are such beautiful creatures.
The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 2mo agoWhat is it like to live with grizzly bears? Reporter Trina Moyles travelled to Haines Junction, Yukon, to find out. It has one of the highest concentrations of grizzlies in the territory. Here's her story about coexistence, with incredible photos by Sonny Parker thenarwhal.ca/grizzly-bear...
"We don’t think of wild animals like grizzly bears as having a history, but they do, and not just collectively and evolutionarily, but as individuals." - @lootina.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2018/01/10/t... #envhist #animalhistory #bears #animalstudies
The Bow Valley and 'People' Without a History
Multispecies ethnographies offer a way to approach the world from a "more-than-human" angle.
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The push to build highways across the North is about more than just roads—it’s about sovereignty, climate resilience, resource access, and Indigenous consultation. Photojournalist Pat Kane explores how one infrastructure plan could reshape Canada’s future: https://thewalrus.ca/two-highways-north/
As fires threaten First Nations communities more than ever before, Indigenous-led wildfire crews are stepping onto the front lines. Journalist Trina Moyles reports on how local firefighters are building the skills to protect their own communities: https://thewalrus.ca/first-nations-firefighters/
My latest for @thewalrus.ca feature Yukon First Nations Wildfire, who are training up Type 1 Indigenous-led wildland firefighting crews. Read about how they’re on the frontlines of change in Canada. thewalrus.ca/first-nation...
The First Nations Firefighters Racing Toward Canada’s Biggest Blazes | The Walrus
These elite crews are often the first to arrive—and the last to leave
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Did you know that every individual transboundary salmon that returns to the Yukon to spawn is counted, measured, and marvelled upon by a passionate team of “fish techs”? Watch for this fun, day in the life story coming in @yukonmag.bsky.social this fall.
“I just want people to know what my community is facing right now is pure devastation, and their evacuation was done without any provincial or federal help,” she said. “It was done with their own bravery. They are their own heroes.”
Opinion: Why did members of a northwest Ontario First Nation have to be ‘their own heroes’ amid wildfire?
In the face of ‘pure devastation,’ Northern Ontario reserves were largely left to fend for themselves, with the provincial and federal governments failing to even respond to calls
theglobeandmail.com
I wrote my first political profile for @thewalrus.ca. The piece offers more nuance than the headline suggests—I appreciate Currie for his openness to being interviewed. His government was voted in late 2025 with the largest majority in Yukon’s history. Timely, with all eyes on the North.
The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 2mo agoYukon is fast becoming the front line of Canada’s resource ambitions. Premier Currie Dixon says it’s time to overturn the “status quo,” but critics warn the rush for minerals could sideline treaty rights and environmental protections. https://thewalrus.ca/currie-dixon-yukon-mining/
Canada’s wildfire crisis is not only about climate change. A century of fire suppression, fractured jurisdictions, and reactive funding has left forests overloaded and communities exposed. Will governments invest before the next emergency? https://thewalrus.ca/canada-wildfires/
The Trump administration finalized a repeal of decades-old regulation that said habitat destruction was a form of harm to endangered species. Overturning the law could allow for mining, ranching and other development to expand into previously protected areas.
Trump rule says habitat destruction does not harm endangered species
A new rule rescinds the definition of what it means to “harm” a plant or animal under the Endangered Species Act and could lead to more habitat destruction.
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in 2020, i visited baja to report on a mysterious die-off of grey whales. people were only sort of worried then: this happened, sometimes. Seven years later, though, the whales keep dying — their entire population has nearly halved. And now we know why. my latest, for @orionmagazine.bsky.social. 🐋
Unusual Mortality Event - Orion Magazine
The mysterious die-off of eastern North Pacific gray whales
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My latest rant for @theglobeandmail.com on a rising trend of people filming close-range encounters with apex predators—and monetizing it. Coupled with a reminder why bear spray is an effective deterrent. Carry it, know how to use it. I just swapped out my expired cans for new ones. Have you?
Opinion: When you’re enjoying the great outdoors, put down your phone – and carry a can of bear spray
Bear safety awareness and education is struggling to keep pace with the growing number of people moving into the human-bear interface
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"Walters tapes the reptile’s mouth shut and places the animal in a burlap sack. He twists the top tight. It will sit below the truck console for the rest of the day." — @lukewinkie.bsky.social for @slate.com
Florida Has Sentenced Some Alligators to a Terrible Fate. No One Realizes Exactly How Horrifying It Is. I Went There to Find Out.
In the manicured suburbs of Florida, the American alligator is facing a strange existential crisis.
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why would someone keep an African wild cat as a pet? and how many people in B.C. have them? it’s impossible to say — but probably more than you think! many questions, a few answers & some surprises in my new long read for @thenarwhal.ca thenarwhal.ca/bc-exotic-ca...
B.C. is cracking down on exotic cats as pets. Where will they go? | The Narwhal
As of May 2026, you can no longer buy or sell exotic cats, like servals, in British Columbia. What do we do with them now?
thenarwhal.ca
As wildfires rip across the parched American West, federal firefighters say they are facing immense pressure and grappling with a shortage of resources that has worsened following the Trump administration’s staffing cuts.
As blazes rage out West, federal firefighters describe a mounting strain
A collision of risky conditions have made things harder as summer begins. But before these elements aligned, the pressure on federal firefighting capacity had been building for years.
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A century after the Klondike Gold Rush, Yukon mining laws are still stuck in the past — and threatening Indigenous Rights and the environment, @trinamoyles.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/yukon-mining...
Gold is booming. So why is Yukon gold still so cheap to mine? | The Narwhal
Amid a critical minerals push, mining laws dating back to the Klondike Gold Rush limit government profits and neglect Indigenous Rights
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In the wake of the latest oil and gas lease sale for the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge yesterday, please read @trinamoyles.bsky.social's beautiful story about an immersive caribou art exhibit that I am very sorry to have missed when it was on in Whitehorse.
Walking with the herd
An immersive Yukon art installation brings caribou — and conservation — into focus
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An inspiring conversation with Whitehorse-based artists Lianne Charlie and Nic Hyatt about their immersive art installation. The artists brought to life 34 caribou to invite viewers to “walk with the herd.” Read the story for @cangeo.bsky.social, edited by @evaholland.bsky.social
Walking with the herd
An immersive Yukon art installation brings caribou — and conservation — into focus
canadiangeographic.ca
“I knew that I wanted to stay close to the story of people and caribou, and to continue writing about the communities coming together, standing shoulder to shoulder, to protect one of the planet’s last great barren-land caribou herds.” Sign up for my monthly (or bimonthly) newsletter ‘Field Notes’
Lessons from the Caribou: Stay Together — Trina Moyles
In Advance of an Oil and Gas Lease Sale in the Arctic Refuge on June 5, Communities are Taking a Stand for the Herd
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"Caribou know where they want to be. In early June, when females reach the edge of snowmelt, they camouflage their bodies among mottled patches of snow and earth. They feast on the cottongrass flowers, gleaning nutrients to produce milk for their soon-to-be-born calves." @trinamoyles.bsky.social:
Caribou people: The story of conserving the Porcupine caribou herd is a story about working together
Amid oil and gas threats to the ancient calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and startling population declines, people on both sides of the border are coming together to protect them
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It's been ten years this week since Fort McMurray burned. For @cangeo.bsky.social, I gathered a panel of smart people (@johnvaillant.bsky.social, @trinamoyles.bsky.social, @nikiwilson.bsky.social, and @lawrencenayally.bsky.social) to talk about what's changed since, and why wildfire stories matter.
After the fire: How Fort McMurray changed Canada’s relationship with wildfire
Five western journalists who cover or have been personally affected by wildfires discuss how the 2016 Fort McMurray fire continues to shape the stories we tell about fire today
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Researchers 'hopeful' after North Atlantic right whale baby boom 23 calves were born this season — the highest number since 2009 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Researchers 'hopeful' after North Atlantic right whale baby boom | CBC News
Twenty-three North Atlantic right whales were born during this year's calving season — the highest number in more than 15 years.
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For thousands of years, this abundance — finned, feathered and furred — has sustained the Teslin Tlingit First Nation. Teslin Lake derives its name from tás ten, which means “long sewing sinew” in the Tlingit language…
Monitoring migration through the Nisutlin River Delta National Wildlife Area
Tales from the Teslin Lake Bird Observatory, whose members enthusiastically observe, log and band the birds that pass through this massive freshwater delta
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Absolutely fascinating article by @trinamoyles.bsky.social in @cangeo.bsky.social about how declines in dall sheep in southwest Yukon might be (partly) related to increased levels of wind-blown dust following diversion of Ä’äy Chù (Slims River). 🧪⚒️🐏 @carmtree.bsky.social @draeolus.bsky.social
Born for this: unravelling the disappearance of Dall sheep
When scientists started documenting alarming declines in the Thechàl Dhâl herd of Dall sheep, it sparked a vital conversation between biologists and First Nations communities. What was causing the dro...
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