By Ian Jansma, Research Assistant
Denny Island Field Station
When I si
gned up as a volunteer on Raincoast’s salmon-carnivore study, I didn’t realize I’d be spending my days up to my armpits in blood. In the moist, pungent darkness of the ‘Blood Shed’, I mix fish oil and cow’s blood into a frothy cocktail with a stench so eye-wateringly acrid, yet so sickly sweet, that it will be irresistible to grizzly bears. (more…)
Give the Gift of Conservation
Chris Genovali, Executive Director
Three pillars form the underpinnings of Raincoast Conservation Foundation’s mission: informed advocacy, scientific research, and environmental ethics. Informed advocacy drives all Raincoast’s conservation efforts; it’s a distinctive approach that has earned us a unique niche in the environmental movement. (more…)
by Mike Price
Biologist, Raincoast Aquaculture Campaign
September 2009
The headlines continue to blare across local, regional, and national newspapers: 11 million Fraser River sockeye missing; poor early marine survival blamed. (more…)
by Caroline Fox
Raincoast Biologist and UVic PhD Student
Hazard P
oint April 2009
Le
aning over the side of my skiff at dusk, I peer into the clear, blue waters off Hazard Point, Quatsino Sound. Just below the calm surface, hundreds of tonnes of tightly-packed Pacific herring school. (more…)
Chris Genovali
Executive Director, Raincoast
May 2009
Last fall I visited numerous watersheds in the Great Bear Rainforest where an unnatural silence filled the air due to the lack of returning salmon. (more…)
by Dou
g Brown
Raincoast Field Station Co-Coordinator
Denny Island, March 2009
The sun is once again shining on the field station bunkhouse after three months of sitting low on the horizon. (more…)
