30 years in the Great Bear Rainforest
How Haíɫzaqv principles and ongoing research will guide our future.
Allison Dennert
Allison is the Quantitative Salmon Ecologist on Raincoast’s Wild Salmon Program team. She conducts scientific research and applied conservation initiatives to advance ecologically sustainable salmon management in BC and support the recovery of at-risk populations. She completed her Doctorate in Biology at Simon Fraser University in the Earth2Ocean Research Group. Her research examines the role of nutrients from spawning Pacific salmon in terrestrial ecosystems, and she is passionate about coastal wildflowers and their pollinators. As a part of her doctoral work she spent several years living and working in Haíɫzaqv Territory in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, boating to salmon watersheds and whale watching on the way to work. More about Allison.
Canada’s Policy for the Conservation of Wild Pacific Salmon
A framework for safeguarding salmon diversity and resilience.
Open Letter to the Honourable Joanne Thompson Minister of Fisheries
A coalition of 35 experts from 26 organizations has issued an open letter to push for urgent action to restore Pacific salmon escapement monitoring.
Place-based knowledge enriches our understanding of biodiversity change
A recent study of bird communities at Yáláƛi (Goose Island Archipelago) examines how bird communities have changed since 1948, and uses Heiltsuk Knowledge to figure out why.
Fishy business: the technicalities of fisheries management planning
Raincoast submits our annual feedback to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on salmon management.
More hatchery salmon cannot help endangered killer whales
Raincoast argues that the Puget Sound hatchery program does little to solve the prey problem for Southern Residents.
The inertia of broken paradigms
In fisheries management, each population has what’s called a “maximum sustainable yield.”
Proposed green waste facility in burnaby axed after public outcry and grassroots organizing
The battle over the location of Burnaby’s Green Recycling and Organics (GRO) facility has been framed as a choice between climate progress and habitat preservation, when in fact its ability to advance climate progress is weak at best.
New research proves that nutrients from the sea can increase terrestrial plant growth and reproduction
Newly published research from Simon Fraser University shows that salmon and marine plants increase both growth and reproduction in terrestrial plants.
