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Grizzly Bear concerns on central coast

Watch video here. Reporting by CTV. Raincoast believes that the most serious threat to coastal grizzly bears, both in the short term and into the future, is the lack of security for salmon. We first began sounding an alarm about extremely low salmon abundance in the fall of 2008 (read story).Â

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Fraser Sockeye Collapse:  Did sea lice play a role?

Fraser Sockeye Collapse: Did sea lice play a role?

There has been much media attention about the factors responsible for the Fraser sockeye collapse, and whether sea lice from fish farms were a contributor. As an organization on the front lines of this issue, our research plays a pivotal role in finding an answer. In the spring of 2007, Raincoas

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The Salmon Carnivore Project

The Salmon Carnivore Project

How do salmon declines affect coastal bears? And how much salmon biomass is required to sustain terrestrial species? These are questions many people are asking in light of the increasing number of salmon runs that fail to return as expected to fall spawning streams. Raincoast scientists directly ad

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Grizzly Details: Salmon Collapse Could Be Bad News for Bears

Grizzly Details: Salmon Collapse Could Be Bad News for Bears

Scientific American By Anne Casselman Scientists are collecting hairs from live bears to prevent population declines as a result of declines in a principal food source: salmon For most of May, Chris Darimont, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, poured liters of

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Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare Considerations “Ethics in our Western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relations of man to man. But that is a limited ethic. We need a boundless ethic which will include the animals also.… the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so l

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About Us

About Us

Our mission: Raincoast is a team of conservationists and scientists empowered by our research to protect the lands, waters and wildlife of coastal British Columbia.  We use rigorous, peer-reviewed science and grassroots activism to further our conservation objectives. We call this approach ‘infor

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  • November 17th, 2009 Posted in Announcements, Grizzlies |

    Grizzly Details: Salmon Collapse Could Be Bad News for Bears

    Scientific American
    By Anne Casselman
    Scientists are collecting hairs from live bears to prevent population declines as a result of declines…

    November 7th, 2009 Posted in Announcements, Grizzlies, Salmon |

    The Grizzly Bear Necessities

    Seaside Times
    By Chris Genovali
    2008 ranked as one of the worst years for salmon returns on British Columbia’s central coast and the ‘silent fal…

    October 21st, 2009 Posted in Announcements, Grizzlies, Salmon |

    The Bear Necessities: A Fall Harvest of Salmon

    Island Tides
    By Chris Darimont and Misty MacDuffee
    How do salmon declines affect coastal bears? And how much salmon is required to sustain wild…

    October 20th, 2009 Posted in Announcements |

    Raincoast speaks for salmon

    Recent news coverage, letters and articles voicing our concerns for wild salmon.
    Times Colonist, October 4, 2009
    Letter to Minister, Sept 16,…

    October 10th, 2009 Posted in Announcements |

    Fraser Sockeye Collapse: Did sea lice play a role?

    There has been much media attention about the factors responsible for the Fraser sockeye collapse, and whether sea lice from fish farms were a c…

    October 7th, 2009 Posted in Announcements, Wolves |

    British Columbia’s Rainforest Wolves

    Seaside Times
    By Chris Genovali
    Fall was in the air and Raincoast’s wolf project was conducting a ten day expedition on our research vessel Achi…