• A container ship get loaded at a terminal near Vancouver.
    Photo by Michael O. Snyder.
  • Group of people working together collecting water for sampling.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Group of youth in the intertidal on a sunny day.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation
  • Shauna Doll walking between to large Coastal Douglas-fir trees.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Chris Dairmont smiles at the camera wearing a green flannel button-up shirt.
  • Brittany and Lance holding up a large drone while standing on a boat.
  • Persia Khan, Research Associate and Liaison for Raincoast, looks straight at the camera with a giant grint, showing off her teeth and crinkling her eyes. Her hair is a wavy mix of blonde and brown, settling over her shoulders while wearing a red puffy jacket.
  • Belted kingfisher sits in a tree with their head plume looking very majestic.
    Photo by Les Peterson.
  • Hummingbird on the Gulf Islands.
    Photo by Tilaï Ellis-Stairs.
  • Some wee humans walk between the giant tress of KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest on Pender Islands.
  • Shoreline and Coastal Douglas-fir forest.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Raincoast Fellow and Masters of Science student Ishana Shukla looks at the camera, her hair is black and shoulder-length, wearing a light grey cotton button-up shirt.
  • Shoreline and Coastal Douglas-fir forest.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • An otter lies in on their back in the water with their feet out of the water.
    Photo by Reynaud Geoffrey.
  • 4 boats in the water setting a reef net.
    An aerial view of the first Reef net launch in 2020. Photo by Alex Harris.
  • Sea otter research figure 2.
    Fig 2. Eelgrass populations and locations.Meadow locations with sea otters absent (pale blue circles), recent (<10 years; dark blue circles), and established (20 to 30 years; red circles). STRUCTURE analyses identified two eelgrass populations (K = 2); genetic divergence is likely driven by distance. Pale and dark green bars show the probability of individual population assignment.
  • Barred Owl in the trees.
    Photo by Tilaï Ellis-Stairs.
  • Three students on a boat looking at a map.
    Riley Seward and Kaleah Claxton learning how to chart distances aboard Achiever. Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • A grizzly snuffles through the dried fallen grasses in the misty mountains.
    Photo by Michelle Valberg.
  • Kaleah Claxton in a cedar hat on a beach
    Kaleah Claxton. Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Cargo ship covered in smoke with burned shipping containers
    MV Zim Kingston. Photo by Canadian Coast Guard.
  • Two sea otters float hugging each other and looking into the camera, with a figure of data floating over the scene.
    Photo by Geoffrey Reynaud.
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, British Ecological Society logo sitting overtop of a cougar walking up the beach.
    Photo by Finn Steiner.
  • Lots of garbage on a beach.
    Photo by Simon Ager.
  • Birds eye view of a coastline with a bull kelp forest on a sunny day.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Drone image of the Steveston Jetty with a large breach that was apart of our restoration project.
    West breach – one of the three breaches made in the Steveston Jetty to re-connect the Fraser River with Sturgeon Bank. Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Deceased salmon after spawning in a shallow river.
  • A pink salmon in the shallow spawning grounds of a wild river.
    Photo by Mark Carwardine.
  • Coastal wolf walking along the shoreline on a calm day.
    Photo by Michelle Valberg.
  • Group of salmon smolts.
    Salmon smolts. Photo by Fernando Lessa.
  • Sea Otter research figure 4.
    Fig. 4. Established otters enhance eelgrass genetic diversity.Posterior distributions of estimated parameters from the best-supported model predicting eelgrass allelic richness (A) and genotypic diversity (C). Shaded areas show 90% credible intervals (CI). Marginal means of sea otter effects on allelic richness (B) and genotypic diversity (D); bars indicate 95% CI. Colors and abbreviations as in Fig. 3.
  • Two people analyzing bear hair.
    Photo by Grant Callegari, Hakai Magazine
  • Two people analyzing bear hair.
    Photo by Grant Callegari, Hakai Magazine
  • Lower Fraser River Salmon Recovery Brief cover sits on the sandy floor of the Fraser, and a tiny fish.
    Photo by Fernando Lessa.
  • Figure 2 of maps of spatial alignment between language groups and bear genetics.
    Fig. 2. Plots of grizzly bear genetic and Indigenous language family overlap. Plots are STRUCTURE bar plot at K = 3 (A) and combined (B) and separate (C) inverse distance weighting-interpolated STRUCTURE population Q-value maps (blue = G1, green = G2, red = G3). Dark grey lines indicate borders among Indigenous language families (approximate overlap: blue = Tsimshian, green = Wakashan, red = Salishan Nuxalk); light grey points indicate mean detection locations of individual grizzly bears.
  • People walking up to Waterfall camp on a logging road.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones and Hereditary Chief Victor Peters talking to police.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Photo looking into our research boat, Achiever, with people inside.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • SV Achiever glides through the quiet waters into the fog with small ripples in the water.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Drone image of a neighbourhood with the Fraser Estuary in the background.
    Dunbar Neighbourhood. Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Dr. Peter S. Ross.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Peter Ross drives a boat in the waters of Labrador.
  • Two tiny fish float int he dark green sea.
    Photo by Fernando Lessa.
  • A young person jumps and plays splashing water in the Fraser River.
    Photo by Michael O. Snyder.
  • Figure 1. Wuikinuxv Lake watershed and neighbouring watersheds (dark grey, 3,580 km2) (Province of British Columbia 2018), located in Wuikinuxv Territory in Rivers Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. Grizzly bears were detected at hair collection traps (n = 23 distributed evenly over 575 km2) throughout the study area from 2013 to 2018 (Adams et al. 2017). The star denotes ‘Kìtit village, where most Wuikinuxv Nation Food, Social, and Ceremonial (FSC) harvest for on and off-reserve community members occurs, and where the sonar has been in operation. Thick grey lines represent salmon-bearing streams and rivers in the region. Sockeye spawn in the Wuikinuxv Lake tributaries and primarily rear in the lake.
  • A grizzly bear stands in the water hold a salmon in their mouth.
    Photo by John E. Marriott.
  • Kristen Walters, smiling, standing in the forest.
  • Misty MacDuffee and the field team assess salmon in the Fraser Estuary.
    Raincoast field team assesses juvenile salmon in the Fraser Estuary. Identification, measurements and genetic sampling of juvenile Chinook salmon has been part of the Fraser estuary study since 2016. Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Lia Chalifour holds up a tubesnout on the Fraser Estuary.
    Lia Chalifour holds a tubesnout, a cousin to sticklebacks, and one of dozens of fish species that inhabit the Fraser Estuary. Photo by Misty MacDuffee.
  • A large cutblock from Salt Spring with an backhoe standing in the middle.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • A backhoe works on a cutblock on Pender Island, with remaining trees and smoke scattered around the edge.
  • Youth and emerging stewards stand along the bow of Achiever.
    Photo by Mike Morash.
  • The salmon song is sung by drum and on Sto:lo land.
    Elder T’it’elem Spath, Eddie Gardner, a member of Skwah First Nation.
  • A wolf walks along the beach in the Great Bear Rainforest.
  • A frog looks out from below a rock on the beach in the Kitlope.
    Photo by Alex Harris / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Cecil Paul in a hat and glasses against a white background.
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  • Three people standing in front of beautiful mountainous scenery.
    Brian Falconer,Sherry Kirkvold, Cecil Paul in the Kitlope in 2001
  • A white bear pokes out from behind a bush in the Great Bear Rainforest.
  • Denis Tuzinovic in the sunshine with his Patagonia hat on.
    Denis Tuzinovic
  • Maureen Vo shares a laugh with a student of the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards Program.
    Photo by Mike Morash.
  • Heather Bryan at UNBC.
  • A close up on the face and mouth of a wolf with white and grey markings while it howls.
    Photo by Paul Nicklen, Sea legacy.
  • A black bear sits in the stream and holds a fish against a rock in the water.
    Photo by April Bencze / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Raincoast biologist Dave Scott in hardhat during jetty decommision
  • Three Raincoast fieldworkers stand on the beach around their boat on a sunny day with mountains in the background, on Heiltsuk territory.
    Field crew members Ilona Mihalik, Kyle Artelle, and Howard Humchitt. Photo by April Bencze / Raincoast Conservation Foundation.

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