We must end Alberta’s persecution of wolves
Chris Genovali and Sadie Parr/Huffington Post
Grey wolves in Alberta are exposed to lethal threats from every angle, including aerial gunning from helicopters, choking neck-snares, and poison-baits…
Investigate and inform
Indepth essays and expert analyses from our researchers.
The time has come for a different way of ‘managing’ Canada’s wildlife
Chris Genovali and Paul Paquet/Huffington Post
The senseless killing of Cecil the lion has catalyzed a worldwide discussion about the gratuitous trophy hunting of large carnivores…Alberta must call a truce in war on wolves
Sadie Parr and Chris Genovali/Calgary Herald
Grey wolves in Alberta are exposed to lethal threats from every angle, including aerial gunning, neck snares, and poison-baits that lure wolves to excruciating deaths…Cecil the lion and compassionate conservation
Chris Genovali and Paul Paquet/Vancouver Sun
The senseless killing of Cecil the lion has catalyzed a worldwide discussion about the gratuitous trophy hunting of large carnivores…Opinion: Saving more than memories
Misty MacDuffee and Chris Genovali, Special to Vancouver Sun
Raincoast discusses the future of Canada’s endangered southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea…Poisoning Canada’s wolves with strychnine is unacceptable: journal comment
Raincoast scientists publish a comment in the Cambridge journal ‘Environmental Conservation’: the use of strychnine to poison wolves is unacceptable.
Potential acoustic impacts of increased vessel traffic on Southern Resident Killer Whales
Dr. Chris Clark, acoustic expert from Cornell University, describes how noise and disturbance from vessels in the Salish Sea are likely impacting killer whales…
Population Viability Analysis of Southern Resident killer whales
Expert report on the viability of the southern resident killer whale population in the face of existing and future threats within their critical habitat of the Salish Sea…
BC’s wolf cull is unscientific, unethical and unwarranted
This unscientific, unethical, and unwarranted wolf cull is a consequence of industrial logging and other human activity…
A trophy hunt by any other name
Chris Genovali and Brian Falconer/ Huffington Post
Andrew Weaver’s private member’s bill gives trophy hunters cover by renaming their blood sport as a food hunt…Comment: Green MLA’s grizzly bill poorly thought out
Raincoast takes issue with MLA Andrew Weaver’s re-labelling BC’s grizzly trophy hunt as a food hunt…
Opinion: Bullets all feel the same to the bears
Brian Falconer & Chris Genovali/Vancouver Sun
The recent controversy surrounding the tug of war between the B.C. Wildlife Federation and the Guide Outfitters Association of B.C. over the allocation of wildlife is a lurid sideshow…
