Serena Renner is a journalist and editor based in Victoria, British Columbia, with an eye on climate solutions, Indigenous sovereignty, and the coast. She’s written for dozens of publications, including AFAR, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Sierra, and The Tyee, and worked as an associate producer at the CBC’s only climate change show, What On Earth. Before joining Hakai Magazine full time, she was a 2022 Tula Foundation journalism fellow.
Welcome to the Great Bear Sea
Now, a new network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in a region known as the Great Bear Sea is trying to bring strategies that have worked on land into the ocean. The plan is to connect ecological hotspots that will act like underwater stepping stones between B.C.’s northern Vancouver Island and Alaska.
July 25, 2025
In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back
The provincial wall may not have fully crumbled, but the tide is rising against it. And at least on Haida Gwaii, a colonial government is no longer lord of the land.
April 30, 2024