Raincoast’s feedback on Getting Major Projects Built in Canada
The government’s proposed dismantling of a key clause has significant implications for the future of endangered species in Canada, including Southern Resident killer whales.
Dr. Barrett-Lennard did his PhD in Zoology at the University of British Columbia. After graduating, he worked as a research scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada before serving a 20-year term as head of the marine mammal research program at the Ocean Wise Conservation Association, housed at the Vancouver Aquarium. He is a Co-Director of Raincoast's Cetacean Conservation Research Program. More about Lance.
The government’s proposed dismantling of a key clause has significant implications for the future of endangered species in Canada, including Southern Resident killer whales.
Action alert: It’s not just endangered species being undermined by federal fast tracking of major projects, it’s also the SARA legislation that protects them.
Take action and support the 1,000m minimum approach distance.
Three no-cost steps would advance the recovery of Southern Resident killer whales and show that environmental protection and fiscal restraint can go hand-in-hand.
At 73 individuals, the southern resident killer whales’ decline since being listed as endangered two decades ago is unfolding in plain sight, despite mounting science on how to reverse it.
Help us communicate the urgency of an emergency order to protect Southern Resident killer whales under section 80 of the Species at Risk Act (SARA).
As the saying goes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
Southern Resident killer whales need protective orders to facilitate recovery.
Worrying signs of an accelerated decline in Southern Resident killer whales.
We are set to begin tracking water pollution and underwater noise on the Sunshine Coast.
This letter urges caution in interpreting the causes and nature of the whales’ behaviours.
As charismatic mega-predators, killer whales have no equal. Historically feared, respected, in some cultures revered, we now know them to be intelligent and highly social. They also have fascinatingly strong ideas about what constitutes food, with different populations having vastly different preferred prey. Not surprisingly, then, the plight of the critically endangered salmon-eating Southern Resident…