Raincoast Conservation Foundation

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).�

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

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

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

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

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

November 17th, 2009 Posted in Announcements, Grizzlies |

Wolf swimming

Eagle

Spirit Bear

Sunset

Whale

Wolf on the Beach

Whale breaching

Humpback whale

Two Bears

wolf on log

close up of eagle

running bear.

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Grizzly Bear concerns on central coast

Fraser Sockeye Collapse: Did sea lice play a role?

The Salmon Carnivore Project

Grizzly Details: Salmon Collapse Could Be Bad News for Bears

Animal Welfare

About Us

Last stand of the Great Bear

What's at Stake? Canada's West Coast

Grizzly Details: Salmon Collapse Could Be Bad News for Bears

The Grizzly Bear Necessities

The Bear Necessities: A Fall Harvest of Salmon

Raincoast speaks for salmon

Fraser Sockeye Collapse: Did sea lice play a role?

British Columbia’s Rainforest Wolves

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