Tell your Canadian pension fund: Save a living dinosaur

Did you know your Canadian pension funds will be voting soon on whether to support the polluting open-net pen salmon farming industry or to save a 60-million-year-old Australian animal to extinction?  

Tell your Canadian pension fund to vote to save the ancient Maugean skate. 

Living Oceans has been working with our Save the Skate allies, investors and funds, to get some of the world’s largest supermarkets to switch out unsustainable farmed salmon.  

It was the biggest nature shareholder resolution in the world last year: 39% of Coles shareholders and 30% of Woolworths shareholders defied their Board’s recommendations and voted to save the Maugean skate from extinction. 

This stingray-like animal that’s been around since the dinosaurs is at risk because of salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, Australia. The supermarkets need to stop sourcing salmon from Macquarie Harbour, or they risk linking themselves with an extinction event. 

The supermarket Annual General Meetings are fast approaching again. And once again they’re facing resolutions asking them to save the skate. Now it's time to use your power as an investor. If you have retirement savings in a Canadian pension fund you likely have shares in Coles and Woolworths. Your pension fund will vote on these resolutions to save the skate. 

Use Eko’s easy tool to email your Canadian pension fund and tell them that you want your retirement money funding a positive future where animals thrive? Can you ask them to vote FOR the resolutions to save the skate, and if your fund did vote for the resolutions last year (amazing), ask them to do it again? 

Tell your PENSION fund to save the skate