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Salmon declines could have long-term effects on grizzly bear health, conclude scientists from Raincoast in a study published today in the scientific journal PLOS ONE…
How great is this? Help protect the coast by drinking beer. It’s true, Original Joe’s Restaurant & Bar and Okanagan Brewery have teamed up to help Raincoast. All you have to do is order a beer…
Scientists from the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, SFU, and UVIC have authored the first peer-reviewed study of BC’s controversial grizzly bear management…
Today, Raincoast and Georgia Strait Alliance launch the second phase of a new initiative to study the potential spread of an oil spill in the Salish Sea…
Federal MP Randall Garrison introduced a motion to the House of Commons to protect BC’s southern resident killer whales. Raincoast is in full support…
Raincoast, Watershed Watch and SkeenaWild write an open letter to Jimmy Pattison to resolve salmon conservation issues in BC fisheries…
Conservation groups handing over video say DFO and Pattison Group are scapegoating fishermen instead of addressing real issue…
The three conservation groups that publicly revealed the blatant waste of valuable salmon expected some “push back” from DFO but did not expect them to purposefully mislead the public…
Video evidence released today shows that tens of thousands of wild salmon are being needlessly killed because the federal government is refusing to adequately monitor fisheries…
On the heels of coastal First Nations’ declaration opposing the grizzly and black bear hunts, Raincoast has purchased the commercial hunting rights to a large portion of the Great Bear Rainforest
The answer appears to be a resounding “no,” given the support to expand Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and the dramatic escalation in oil tanker traffic that will accompany it…
VANCOUVER – Eight BC conservation organizations are urging the Canadian Navy to exclude military training exercises from the critical habitat of southern resident killer whales…