This week For The Wild is joined by Tamo Campos, extreme snowboarder, youth facilitator, and filmmaker, to discuss a myriad of topics from warming winters, the outdoor sports industry, community building, fish farming, and many of the stories told in Beyond Boarding’s film, The Radicals. We begin our conversation with Tamo looking at the narrative around outdoor recreation and the privileges many of us hold, as an entry point into how we can change our relationship with the mountains, rivers, oceans, and communities for the better. At the root of our conversation with Tamo are two powerful proclamations on relationship and responsibility. Tamo is clear in that we all have a responsibility to community, place, and Earth. By centering this responsibility, we are empowered to act in accordance with our true value system.

Tamo Campos is a 29-year-old filmmaker, youth facilitator & extreme snowboarder based in the Pacific North West. His father is from Chile and his mother’s heritage is from Japan. Tamo co-founded the environmental organization Beyond Boarding, a non-profit collective that combines a love of outdoors with environmental outreach and action. Whether it’s working with youth outdoors or leading environmental film projects, Tamo embeds himself in the community wherever he goes and is dedicated to combining social impact with his adventures in sport, activism, and filmmaking. Campos currently resides in a converted waste vegetable oil-powered ambulance with a small yet cozy wood stove.

Beyond Boarding’s recent film, The Radicals, highlights ecological restoration work in Xwísten territory, the Musgmagw Dzawada'enuwx Nation’s decades-long protection of wild salmon from fish farms, and Haida Gwaii weavers using art as a form of resistance. These instances remind us of the need for systems change, and in conversation with Ayana, Tamo points out how for too long we have conflated consumer change with systems change through actions like so-called sustainable consumerism. We can’t buy ourselves out of the problems we are in, we must look to relationship, youth stewardship, and community building as the antidote to a commodified world

♫ Music by Jeffrey Silverstein

+ REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS +

Watch Tamo Campos & Beyond Boarding’s Film, The Radicals.

Watch Wild Salmon, Sovereignty, & Resistance (A Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw Mural Story)

To learn more about PRV & the threat of fish farms, listen to For The Wild’s interview with Alexandra Morton, “On the Virulence of Farmed Salmon / 78.”

For further updates & resources on open fish farms and wild salmon runs, visit WildFirst.CA