About Conservation While many of us are talking about conservation there is one individual who is actually doing something about it. At Bella Bella on British Columbia's northern coast, Sonny Dickson has been feeding a group of about 60 eagles each day. The significance isn't really in the feeding but in the influence he has had on the local villagers. Very often eagles get shot around fishing camps. But not at Bella Bella.
Every resident is a bald eagle protector.
And it's because of Sonny. The fishermen get a sufficiently close look at the flying skills of the eagles as Sonny feeds them, that they can't help but admire the eagle for its true magnificence. Once they admire it, they don't want to see it destroyed. The lesson seems an important one. It's not until we see how the wild has meaning and value to each of us that we can expect each individual to respect that wild.