What's new // Raincoast updates
Notes, details, updates and miscellaneous thoughts.
I was a little out of my comfort zone to ask people to donate, but it was so worth it! My fundraising for Raincoast has been about giving back to the natural world that sustains me and that sustains my love of running…
The planned route for my run takes me over 500 kilometers from Port Hardy to Victoria, traveling along the Old Island Highway when possible. I will be running about a marathon’s distance a day, with the actual daily distance varying from as little as 32 km, to as much as…
February request for an emergency order.
Are you a biology student looking for a great summer job? Check out Raincoast’s juvenile salmon program in the Fraser Estuary. We are looking to hire two field assistants…
The Provincial Employee Community Services Fund (PECSF) is a volunteer driven organization working with BC Public Service employees. It’s pronounced pek-sef. It’s an employee-driven, giving program. They make it easy for provincial employees to make tax deductible donations to registered charities, including Raincoast…
This fall, Raincoast was recognized with the Green Business of the Year Award. We’re honoured to accept this award and look forward to more years of being a good neighbour and committed team of scientists and conservationists…
Raincoast Conservation Foundation, with the support of Coastal First Nations, has struck a deal to buy a fourth trophy hunting licence in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. The exclusive commercial licence covers an area of more than 2,300 square kilometres of rich habitat for large carnivores, including grizzlies, black bears, Spirit bears, wolves…
There is widespread agreement that the commercial and recreational hunting of animals, like grizzly bears, must stop. But sometimes the passion and energy that humans have to bring science and sound policy and compassion to these issues is missed…
We met up today to draw the name of the lucky winner of our Save the Great Bears draw! We can’t thank you all enough for your smiles and energy and donations…
There’s one week left and everyone at Raincoast is hoping that if you haven’t already entered our contest, you will before July 1st. You can help us stop the killing of bears, and you can win a ten day trip in the Great Bear Rainforest…
This study represents a decade of work covering an area reaching 1000km into BC and provides resource managers – Indigenous and Western alike – with dietary information from hundreds of bears across thousands of square kilometres, shedding light on the ecological interconnections of ecology in the expansive bear-salmon-human system…
July 1st is still a ways away but we want to make sure you know how easy it is help us Save the Great Bears and enter to win a trip onboard the Achiever. There are three easy steps…