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The Canadian Federal and BC Provincial governments are looking to allow oil tankers to ply the waters of Canada’s Inside Passage. The oil tankers would be Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC’s) approximately the size of the Exxon Valdez or larger. These tankers must navigate rocky courses through unpredictable and sometimes violent weather to reach the [...]

Done in production with National Geographic, this trailer highlights the full length feature on large carnivores and Raincoast’s work to protect them in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Working in the remote regions of the Great Bear Rainforest requires access by boat. Our 67′ vessel Achiever serves as a research platform for many of our projects, however the marine team -who undertake marine mammal and seabird surveys- spend up to 4 months a year on board. In 2007, the crew surveyed the stormy [...]

The lands and waters of Canada’s Pacific coast support an astonishing diversity of marine birds. Millions breed here every year and millions more migrate, rest, overwinter and feed here. With industrial projects, such as oil tankers and pipelines, being proposed for the lands and waters of the Great Bear Rainforest, the marine birds of our [...]

Grizzly Bears are under pressure from hunting, habitat loss and declining food supply. In 2005, Raincoast and its partners at the Institute of Ocean Sciences and the University of Victoria, published a paper on an additional concern, the threat from global pollution. This paper documented the presence of Persistent Organic Pollutants (such as DDT and [...]