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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.
Nanaimo Daily News
By Chris Genovali And Emma Gilchrist
There’s a good chance you’ve seen the new Enbridge television advertisements by now; the warm and fuzzy cartoon animation with the soothing soundtrack and the family strolling down what looks like the yellow brick road…
Veteran political cartoonist Dan Murphy says his newspaper backed down in a fight with one of Canada’s largest energy companies over a spoof of an advertisement.
Seaside Times
July 2012
Fifty artists — some of the country’s most celebrated and many who are First Nations — have taken up paintbrushes and carving tools to portray Canada’s fragile raincoast…
By Brenda Gough, Parksville Qualicum Beach News
Next up for Dan Gray is a trip to Bella Bella with some fellow artists to support the Raincoast’s efforts to protest the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline…
Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
Paintings depicting the magic of B.C.’s coast are about to become heavy artillery in an artistic battle against the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline…
Oceanside Star
By Pamela Suzanne Smyth
It’s not if but when a spill will happen as a result of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, Brian Falconer, from Raincoast Conservation Foundation, told a crowd at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre…
Raincoast’s Paul Paquet and Chris Genovali authored the cover story appearing in the Spring 2012 issue of AWI Quarterly magazine…
Outside Magazine Online
Chris Malloy, who, along with a team of B.C. surfers and Raincoast’s Chris Darimont, sailed along the coast on a surf safari/reconnaissance mission to see the proposed tanker shipping lanes. The result is Groundswell…
Peninsula News Review
April 20, 2012
By Arnold Lim
After 35 years, Brian Falconer still loves navigating B.C.’s coastlines. Unfortunately he finds himself navigating the political landscape, as often as the geological one, and wishes for a day that is no longer the case…
Victoria News
The recent anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster casts a long shadow over impending Earth Day events in BC, as two controversial pipeline projects propose to deliver “the world’s dirtiest oil” to the Pacific coast…
Raincoast wants an end to the grizzly hunt. Global BC News Hour coverage includes interviews with Raincoast’s Dr. Chris Darimont and photographer Andrew Wright…
Global News:
The grizzly bear hunt started April 1st, and groups such as the David Suzuki Foundation and Raincoast want the annual trophy hunt to be stopped…