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Where this flag flies, salmon have allies

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Upcoming webinar: When Fire Meets Water

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Nominations for the 2025 Raincoast Ocean Science Awards are now open

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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025

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Meet Nicole Van Zutphen, Raincoast’s new Communications Manager

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Celebrate World Ocean Day with Raincoast

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Indigenous Roundtable gathering in Richmond, May 27-28

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Tests on Bowen Island water supply produce surprising results

2025 June 9

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Cocaine, DEET, and sucralose among the surprising pollutants found in Grafton Lake – the drinking water source for half the island’s 4,000 residents.

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Government’s failure to issue emergency order puts Southern Resident killer whales at greater risk

2025 March 7

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Conservation groups are warning that the federal government’s decision not to issue an emergency order to protect southern resident killer whales has put this iconic and critically endangered population at greater risk of extinction.

Government failure to recommend emergency order to protect endangered killer whales prompts legal challenge from conservation groups

2025 January 28

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Ecotourism did not predispose grizzly bears to subsequent conflict

2025 January 14

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Federal Court upholds RBT2 megaport expansion in a setback to legal protection for species at risk

2025 January 13

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How bird populations have changed on the BC central coast, new study

2024 December 16

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A graphic showing smaller icons that represent the water samples of five different categories: source water, freshwater, urban runoff, tap water, and marine environment.

A watershed based approach to water sampling

Posted on 2025 May 7

Chum salmon swim along the bottom of the river floor.

Policy brief – supporting freshwater salmon habitat through the Water Sustainability Act

Posted on 2025 March 18

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Wildlife killing contests

Posted on 2024 August 27

Belugas surface watchfully, together, in an inlet on a beautiful sunny day with light dancing on the water.

Scientific literature

Too loud to talk? Belugas tune in to ultrasonic channels

Posted on 2025 March 27

Aerial shot of 5 humpback whales swimming near the surface.

Scientific literature

DNA from dives: Species detection of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) from flukeprint eDNA

Posted on 2025 March 20

A grizzly bear is seen through vegetation.

Scientific literature

Ecotourism did not predispose grizzly bears to subsequent conflict

Posted on 2025 January 15

Many salmon swim by as seen from below in the green blue light of the sun.

Conservation updates

Where this flag flies, salmon have allies

Posted on 2025 May 30

An aerial shot of Kingfisher forest, showing tall Douglas Fir trees touching a blue shoreline.

Conservation updates | Raincoast updates

International Day for Biological Diversity 2025

Posted on 2025 May 22

A grizzly bear is seen through vegetation.

Conservation updates

Indigenous Roundtable gathering in Richmond, May 27-28

Posted on 2025 May 12

A smiling and clapping audience looks towards speaker standing out of frame.

Psst… We have an events calendar

Posted on 2025 June 2

A vast green forest of towering trees, the sky filled with smoke.

Upcoming webinar: When Fire Meets Water

Posted on 2025 May 30

Two sea otters float on calm blue grey water, both with paws raised as if they're clapping.

Nominations for the 2025 Raincoast Ocean Science Awards are now open

Posted on 2025 May 27

The dorsal fin of the killer whale known as J35, or Tahlequah, is seen above the ocean surface as she pushes her dead newborn calf, J61, with her nose.

Investigate and inform

A mother’s grief, a population on the brink

Posted on 2025 February 10

Researchers walk through a beautiful fern filled forest with giant trees.

Investigate and inform

Connecting the community on all things wildfire in the Coastal Douglas-fir zone

Posted on 2025 January 30

Aerial view of four researchers walking through the waters of the Coldwater River.

Investigate and inform

Recapping our environmental flow needs project in the Coldwater River

Posted on 2025 January 27

Kristen stands in front of a podium with a microphone presenting a power-point that reads "Post wildfire logging"

Notes from the field

Raincoast presents at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference

Posted on 2025 May 6

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Notes from the field

Scientists are delivering new insights into the source, fate, and effects of plastics and microplastics in Canada

Posted on 2025 January 16

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Notes from the field

Final field days of 2024

Posted on 2024 December 31

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Whale blows water into the air with a large ship in the background.

The killer whales are speaking, but is the minister of transport listening?

Posted on 2024 September 23

View of a small area of water surrounded by forest on North Pender Island.

The Islands Trust is failing to protect water and forests

Posted on 2023 October 20

Birds flying above the estuary with the city and mountains in the background.

The rights of the river: could granting legal personhood for the Fraser River estuary spur its protection?

Posted on 2023 September 5