News & updates
Landslides, clearcuts, and camera traps: surveilling wolves on an industrial landscape
In two field days, we deployed nine remote cameras throughout the valley.
Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 1: Project Impetus
Registered environmental charity, Transition Salt Spring has partnered with experts and organizations from across the Coastal Douglas-fir biogeoclimatic zone, including Raincoast Conservation Foundation, to provide a model for on-the-ground, multidisciplinary, multisectoral, and collaborative climate action. We interviewed Ruth Waldick from Transition Salt Spring to learn more about Maxwell Creek Watershed project. What is the Maxwell…
KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest matching campaign update
Altogether, we have raised a total of $571,222.69 since we announced our intention to purchase and protect KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest.
The story of Coastal Douglas-fir forests: An ancient legacy, a critical future
Eleven and half thousand years ago is a mighty long time for a major forest ecosystem. Yet, that is how long Coastal Douglas-fir forests have existed on Canada’s west coast, longer than most other forested biogeoclimatic zones in British Columbia!
The cull of the wild: management for industry, not wolves
Is such a large experiment in wolf control, given its limited signal of efficacy and an unrelenting appetite of industry, worth the carnage?
The Kitlope: A place that changes you
Sacred to the Haisla and known as Xesdu’wäxw (Huschduwaschdu), which means “blue, milky, glacial water”, the Kitlope is now the largest protected temperate rainforest on the planet.
The story of Coastal Douglas-fir forests: The interconnectedness of people and place
After thousands of years of evolution alongside Coast Salish peoples, the story of Coastal Douglas-fir forests and associated habitats is inseparable from the story of those who shaped them.
Project TEACH Solutions Session
On June 23rd, the teachings from these sessions will be mobilized at an in-person gathering we are calling the Solutions Session.
Press releases
Islands Trust Conservancy contributes funds to protect KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest on S’DÁYES / Pender Island
With just seven days left to raise an additional $100,000 to meet their $200,000 fundraising target, Islands Trust Conservancy has announced an Opportunity Fund grant of $5,000 to help Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the Pender Islands Conservancy Association protect 18 hectares (44.5 acres) of land known as KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest on North Pender Island.
Fraser Chinook salmon can now reach estuary habitat that was inaccessible for 100 years
VANCOUVER, BC: For the first time in over a century, juvenile salmon now have access to habitats they rely on to feed and grow as they transition from the Fraser River to saltwaters of Georgia Strait. A salmon restoration project has created a “breach” in a century old structure that now provides an access route for young salmon to reach their…
