Delegating to the Islands Trust: The 30×30 challenge
Forest Conservation Program Director Shauna Doll made a delegation to Islands Trust Council urging them to incorporate biodiversity protection.
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Proposed green waste facility in burnaby axed after public outcry and grassroots organizing
The battle over the location of Burnaby’s Green Recycling and Organics (GRO) facility has been framed as a choice between climate progress and habitat preservation, when in fact its ability to advance climate progress is weak at best.
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Reduced genetic diversity: another challenge facing the Southern Resident killer whales?
As charismatic mega-predators, killer whales have no equal. Historically feared, respected, in some cultures revered, we now know them to be intelligent and highly social. They also have fascinatingly strong ideas about what constitutes food, with different populations having vastly different preferred prey. Not surprisingly, then, the plight of the critically endangered salmon-eating Southern Resident…
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Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 5: Experimental forest restoration methodologies
Together this community of practice has been developing new approaches to manage growing concerns around the degraded condition of BC’s forests.
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Local engagement: letters to elected representatives can help make change
Raincoast scientists have been engaging in work related to conservation action on the Gulf Islands for many years.
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Bear tourism instead of bear hunting
Part of the story was featured on From Our Own Correspondence, a BBC podcast.
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Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 4: Managing fire in a climatically uncertain future
As previous installments of the Field Files series have established, since settler arrival in the Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) zone, forests have been extensively harvested. The consequence of this widespread, industrial-scale logging is predominantly second growth forests that are not only lacking in biodiversity and natural complexity, but also at a higher risk of burning in…
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What does Canada’s ban on the manufacture and import of six types of single-use plastics mean?
Dr. Peter Ross was on CBC’s Podcast, About That.
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From laundry to the ocean: fixing the microplastics problem in clothes
Peter Ross was on Wall Street Journal’s, The Future of Everything podcast.
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Guide government action for Southern Resident killer whale recovery before Feb 19
The federal government is accepting your input through a survey, for this year’s recovery and threat reduction measures for Southern Resident killer whales.
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The story of Coastal Douglas-fir forests: The biodiversity potential of privately-owned land
Registered Professional Biologist and Planner, Adriane Pollard, has been working to improve local protections of Coastal Douglas-fir associated ecological communities for over 25 years.
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Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 3: Mapping the watershed
Multiple practitioners working under the umbrella of the Maxwell Creek Watershed Project (MCWP or “the Project”) have contributed to this third instalment of the Field Files series, a photo essay illustrating the important role spatial data and mapping plays in establishing landscape-wide restoration projects. All maps were made by Nicholas Courtier, who also assisted with…
