Raincoast Conservation Foundation
Raincoast is a team of scientists and conservationists empowered by our research to safeguard the land, waters, and wildlife of coastal British Columbia. We investigate to understand coastal species and processes. We inform by bringing science to decision-makers and communities. We inspire action to protect wildlife and wildlife habitats.
Water is essential for life and is shared among all living things. Water creates and sustains healthy habitats for salmon and for killer whales, and provides drinking water for people.
Raincoast uses science, public education and the courts to protect Canada’s endangered salmon-eating killer whales. But their survival requires your voice and action….
Doubling the size of the Deltaport shipping terminal next to the Tsawwassesn Ferry Terminal will destroy vital habitat in the Fraser estuary and put further stress on endangered killer whales, Fraser Chinook salmon and many other threatened species.
As part of our efforts to understand habitat use, mitigate, and stop habitat destruction in the Fraser River Estuary, we study juvenile salmon
![New research draws attention to the need for consistent and high standards for animal welfare in research, and the important role that journals have in maintaining ethical standards in published research.
The authors, including three Raincoast scientists stress that ethical and animal welfare considerations must be top-of-focus at all levels of research that involves animal capture, for both ethical and data quality reasons.
The article, which was a response to de Araujo et al., published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021, concludes that proposals of new methods must “be supported by substantial contextual discussion, a robust rationale and analyses and comprehensive documentation.”
Journals must also uphold rigorous standards in both their animal care policies and enforcement of said policies. In the case of the journal’s editors published de Arajuo et al.’s article even though Arajuo et al. did not produce essential information like a welfare statement and animal permit details.
If journals are to be at the head of ensuring animal welfare consideration, “journals [must] place an onus on Editors and reviewers to explicitly confirm that the submitted work complies with the journal's animal care policies.”
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