We’re using drones to find salmon cooling centres
Rivers are warming due to climate change. Where do salmon go to cool down, and what can we do to help them?
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Introducing the Land Healing Stewards Initiative
As Raincoast’s on-the-ground work, community engagement, and collaborations are key to our research and conservation successes, the Forest Conservation Program and the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards youth education program have partnered to deliver a new and innovative multi-year project. Titled the Land Healing Stewards Initiative, it will support our programs’ shared goals; engaging local communities…
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Raincoast presents at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
Raincoast biologists attended the 43rd gathering of the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference to present on forests, fire, water, and salmon.
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Scientists are delivering new insights into the source, fate, and effects of plastics and microplastics in Canada
Research is driving innovation in policies and practices.
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Final field days of 2024
Canoes, old-growth forests, and appreciating the cycle of life.
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Sailing and learning in the Salish Sea
The Special Bird Service recently joined the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program aboard Achiever.
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Creekwalking in Heiltsuk Territory
This past fall, Raincoast’s Wild Salmon team and technicians from the Reynolds Lab at Simon Fraser University conducted fieldwork for a long-term chum and pink salmon spawner monitoring project in Heiltsuk Territory. Started in 2007, the project monitors spawning populations in 27 small streams throughout the territory, and the data is used to inform fisheries…
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Studying the impacts of drought on salmon habitat in the Nicola watershed
We’re conducting collaborative science to build climate resilience for salmon in the Nicola watershed.
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Restoring marsh habitat in the Fraser River Estuary
Raincoast’s Fraser Estuary Research and Restoration Program has been developing plans for future habitat restoration projects.
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Wildfire, watersheds, and landscape change
Exploring the co-benefits of collaborative, landscape-scale approaches to managing fire in coastal forests of southern BC.
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Using drones to study killer whale health
Every summer our Cetacean Scientists use innovative drone technology to study whales.
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Exploring the Salish Sea with youth aboard Achiever
With the Red Fox Healthy Living Society, we spent five days aboard our research vessel, Achiever, exploring the Salish Sea.
