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CFAX Radio’s Murray Langdon speaks with Raincoast’s marine mammal scientist, Kathy Heise about the lawsuit …
A two-day workshop in 2008 reviewed sediment core studies conducted in sockeye salmon lakes in BC, Alaska, and the US Pacific Northwest..
BC’s unique coastal wolves grace the cover of the Journal of Biogeography. The current issue features work by Raincoast scientists that concludes BC coastal wolves should be considered a distinct management unit (ESU) that warrant conservation. Journal of Biogeography Volume 36, Issue 8, 2009.
Read articles and letters written by Raincoast on BC cougar attacks and cougar management Monday Magazine Vancouver Sun /CanWest News Island Tides Monday Magazine
Read letters published last week by Raincoast’s Executive Director on the proposed shipping of oil through BC waters Globe and Mail Kitimat Northern Sentinel
Kitimat Northern Sentinel July 22, 2009 Chris Genovali Re: “Channel Watch demands inquiry” (Sentinel, July 8), the federal government’s joint review panel (JRP) process for the proposed Enbridge “Northern Gateway” pipeline is fatally flawed as the parameters for assessing risk illogically stop at the putative Kitimat terminal.
Globe and Mail July 21 2009 Chris Genovali Coastal First Nations executive director Art Sterritt summed up the threat posed by oil tankers that would ship tar-sands crude from Enbridge Inc.’s pipeline
Special to the Times Colonoist, Chris Genovali, July 21, 2009 The spectre of rising sea levels and ecological change from climate disruption show land-use plans for Vancouver Island and the B.C. coast will need to be revisited and recalibrated to account for rapid and unabated climate change.
Times Colonist July 18, 2009 By Mike Price It is ironic that Clare Backman (“Salmon farms, wild fish can co-exist,” July 14) describes the connection between repetitive communication and personal belief. It is this very technique that salmon-farm companies have employed
Island Tides Chris Genovali July 16-29, 2009 A recent cougar attack in Squamish has brought to the fore BC’s failure to manage these top-level predators. Reports that BC has 4-6,000 cougars have no scientific basis.
Fatal animal attacks are rare, but with a recent spike in cougar maulings, a plan is needed as urban sprawl threatens the habitat of predators By Tiffany Crawford CanWest News Service July 14, 2009 OTTAWA – Fatal attacks on humans by animals with big, sharp teeth are rare in Canada despite a recent spike in…
Island Tides Chris Genovali July 16-29, 2009 A recent cougar attack in Squamish has brought to the fore BC’s failure to manage these top-level predators. Reports that BC has 4-6,000 cougars have no scientific basis.