Peter Devries surfing waves off the west coast of British Columbia. He wears a wetsuit, and in this photo his surfboard is horizontal, jumping above the waves and the seaspray.
Top Canadian surfer Peter Devries rides the waves of the Great Bear Rainforest to bring attention to the damage that an oil spill could bring to the ecosystem. Photo credit Jeremy Koreski

The Cleanest Line

ByChris Darimont, Raincoast Director of Science

Check out Raincoast science director Dr. Chris Darimont’s blog post at Patagonia’s ‘The Cleanest Line‘ on surfing the Great Bear Rainforest, the upcoming Raincoast/Patagonia/Woodshed Films documentary ‘Groundswell,’ Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline, the threat from oil tankers to BC’s coast and more…

We are so excited to share our annual report – Tracking Raincoast Into 2023 – with you! Tracking gives you highlights from the year, our science, flagship projects, as well as a peek at what’s in store for the coming year.

Dive into Tracking and learn more about our work safeguarding coastal carnivores in the Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure. We are currently raising funds to stop commercial trophy hunting in more than a quarter of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. Now is a good time to sign up and stay connected to our community of researchers and change-makers.

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Chris Darimont is the director of science at Raincoast, and the lead scientist at the Raincoast Applied Conservation Science Lab at the University of Victoria. His work is in biology, evolution and ecology. You can find him on the coast, and sometimes in the waves, somewhere between San Diego and Haida Gwaii.