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Raincoast is a team of conservationists and scientists empowered by our research to protect the lands, waters and wildlife of coastal British Columbia.
All of Raincoast’s published scientific papers, abstracts, and conference proceedings.
Published on 2016.01.06 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature
Distribution and abundance estimates from five years (seven seasons) of marine mammal survey in BC’s coastal waters.
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Published on 2015.08.20 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature
A study by Raincoast scientists just released in the journal Science identifies humans as the planet’s super predator…
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Published on 2015.07.14 | by Raincoast | in For the coast, Scientific Literature
Raincoast scientists publish a comment in the Cambridge journal ‘Environmental Conservation’: the use of strychnine to poison wolves is unacceptable.
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Published on 2015.02.11 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature
Raincoast scientists publish response to paper advocating Alberta’s wolf cull in the name of caribou recovery. It addresses the ethics and science of the approach and methods that were published in Canadian Journal of Zoology, November 2015…
Read morePublished on 2015.01.26 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature
List of Raincoast’s peer-reviewed journal publications produced by our wolf, wild salmon, grizzly and marine programs to 2014
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Published on 2014.11.18 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature
Journal Paper: Heavily hunted wolves have higher stress and reproductive steroids than wolves with lower hunting pressure…
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Published on 2014.07.25 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature
Study by Raincoast and partners discusses the movement of grizzlies from BC’s mainland onto coastal islands in the journal PLOS ONE…
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Published on 2014.07.13 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature
Researchers find differences between BC’s coastal and mainland wolves. Published in BMC Ecology
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Published on 2014.06.10 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature
New study from SFU and Raincoast shows the benefits from higher numbers of spawning pink and chum salmon on coho…
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Published on 2014.06.09 | by Raincoast | in Backgrounders, Scientific Literature
Research from SFU and Raincoast scientists shows juvenile coho salmon benefit from dining on the carcasses of spawning pink and chum salmon.
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Published on 2014.03.25 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature
Raincoast & SFU scientists just published a letter in the international journal SCIENCE. It calls out the BC gov’t for making politically motivated decisions and calling them ‘scientific’…
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Published on 2013.12.01 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature
Raincoast scientists and partners reveal that the excess mortality in the BC grizzly hunt (ie killing more bears than is sustainable) may have occurred in up to 70% of cases examined.
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