Conservation concerns for DFO’s 2016 salmon fishing plan
BC wild salmon conservation groups submit concerns to DFO for 2016 fishing plan.
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Take a closer look at shipping effects in Salish Sea
This past week’s Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference in Vancouver provided an in-depth look at the threats facing this ecologically, economically and culturally important marine environment.
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Bear hunt has not ended in the Great Bear Rainforest
For those of you celebrating the announcement declaring “the end of commercial trophy hunting” in the Great Bear Rainforest, you can put away the champagne.
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Bears left out of the Great Bear Rainforest agreement
While the announcement by the premier and Minister Steve Thomson essentially endorses the effort to buy out commercial trophy hunting businesses, it commits no direct support, nor does it address trophy hunting by BC residents which accounts for 60% of the grizzly kill in the Great Bear Rainforest and in the rest of province.
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NEB timelines imposed by Harper government obstruct rigorous scientific assessment
Karen Wristen and Paul Paquet/Vancouver Sun
The NEB’s assessment of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion has again demonstrated why tight timelines work to defeat rigorous scientific assessment… -
The role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in conservation
Raincoast’s Dr. Paul Paquet has written a guest commentary on the role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in conservation…
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Comment: ‘Pack it out’ plan for grizzly hunts doesn’t work
Chris Darimont, Kyle Artelle & Paul Paquet/Times Colonist
Trophy hunting of grizzly bears is opposed by 90 per cent of British Columbians, including scientists, environmentalists, First Nations and most hunters… -
Miley Cyrus, Pamela Anderson are right on BC’s wolf cull
Chris Genovali and Paul Paquet/Huffington Post
Actress Pamela Anderson and singer Miley Cyrus have rightly weighed in on BC’s wolf cull… -
Pam and Miley are right about the BC wolf cull
Chris Genovali and Paul Paquet/Times Colonist
We offer five reasons why politicians who are supporting the cull should reconsider where they stand on the issue… -
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… -
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…
