The massive inflatable Grizzly measuring 5 metres wide and 6 metres tall, was erected outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre shortly before a media briefing given by the Canadian Prime Minister on his China-Hong Kong trade tour. On that occasion, Mr Chretien was meeting with Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee Hwa inside the official venue. Catherine Stewart of Greenpeace Canada. More than 140 genetically-unique stocks of salmon in British Columbia and the Yukon have already been driven into extinction. A further 624 stocks are known to be at high risk.
Habitat loss is a major factor in salmon decline.
The government of Canada continuously fails to enforce the federal Fisheries Act to prevent the destruction of salmon habitat in the Great Bear Rainforest and protect salmon stocks at risk from industrial clearcut logging. Grizzly bears in BC are also at risk. Their populations in coastal BC forests have declined by 40-80 per cent in the past few decades. The existence of these bears is seriously under threat as their habitat is being clearcut. Alternatives do exist.