What's new // In the media
Follow Raincoast’s conservation work as it appears in popular media outlets. Audio, video, and text interviews with scientists, and Raincoast team members about their research and campaigns to safeguard the lands and waters of coastal BC.
Anna Taylor / The Ecologist
In BC, trophy hunting may be reducing grizzly bear populations. A new study by Raincoast finds evidence of serious ‘overkill’ – of which trophy hunting is a big contributor…
Chris Bolster and Dean Unger / Powell River Peak
Management of few animals in BC is more contentious than wolves. Seen by some as a symbol of our wilderness heritage and by others as a threat…
Peter O’Neil / Vancouver Sun
A long-expected stampede to the courts has begun as environmental groups and First Nations seek to block Enbridge Inc’s proposed $7.9-billion Northern Gateway megaproject…
Dene Moore / The Canadian Press
The problem lies not in whether the wolves can adapt, says Dr. Paquet, but whether people who have lived without the top-tier predators for generations can do so…
By Robyn Allan / TheTyee.ca
The federal Joint Review Panel report recommending Ottawa approve Northern Gateway has a number of flaws, errors and misrepresentations…
Peter James / Prince George Citizen
Raincoast senior scientist Paul Paquet said an Environment Canada report on diluted bitumen could have pushed the panel to recommend different conditions…
Sarah Petrescu / Times Colonist
Scientists on Vancouver Island have for the first time linked spawning Pacific herring, a well-known marine food fish, to the health of land creatures big and small…
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail
Environmental group hopes to raise money needed to buyout hunting licenses in the Great Bear Rainforest…
By Judith Lavoie, FOCUS
As bright yellow drift cards were tossed into the Salish Sea from Raincoast’s vessel Achiever, it was a stark reminder of all that could be lost if oil spills…
By Wendy Stueck, The Globe and Mail
The B.C. government is proposing to open up grizzly hunting next season, despite a recent study that concluded the government is underestimating the number of bears killed each year…
By Mark Hume, The Globe and Mail
When salmon runs dwindle on the B.C. coast, the stress levels in grizzlies climb, say researchers who examined hair samples collected from more than 70 bears…
By Jude Isabella, Slate
Someone shot a grizzly bear in Heiltsuk Territory, in Kwatna Inlet, part of the Great Bear Rainforest. The killer? Clayton Stoner, an NHL defenseman for the Minnesota Wild…