Eleven industrial tires each weighing about four tonnes and filled with Styrofoam have washed up near Campbell River, B.C., prompting concern for wildlife in the area.

The Greenways Land Trust, a small non-profit based in the Vancouver Island city about 150 kilometres north of Nanaimo, says it’s trying to remove the tires but it lacks the financial and technical capacity to do so.

“Everything we do is based off of funding from grants that we receive, and we aren't actually really in the business of beach cleanups,” said Keely Dodds, the organization’s stewardship co-ordinator.

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Dodds said she doesn’t know where the tires came from, but she suspects they were part of a large dock or barge and broke away during one of the region’s

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