Winter in the Great Bear Rainforest
Check out these images of winter in the Great Bear Rainforest on BC’s central coast taken by Raincoast Field Station Manager and photographer Doug Brown…
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Cougar protection urged
By Ken Manning – North Island Gazette
Published: January 27, 2011Say the word “cougar” on the North Island and people pay attention. Say that cougars need our protection, not vice versa, and you are probably in for an argument…
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Report: British Columbia’s neglected carnivores
A conservation assessment and conservation planning guide for cougars.
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Skinny bear cubs baffle experts
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist January 6, 2011
Underweight bear cubs from all over the Island are being taken to the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre in greater numbers than ever before…
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Salmon management should include bears, whales, and other wildlife
As last year’s returning wild Pacific salmon headed upstream, scientists spawned a thought-provoking proposal about how taking less salmon might bring more benefits to both ecosystems and economies…
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Tracking Raincoast into 2011
December 2010 By Chris Darimont, Director of Science for Raincoast This Holiday Season, I would like to share the introduction published in Tracking Raincoast into 2011. From my family to yours, I wish you all the best of 2011 and ask you to join me in honoring our precious coast. The future of coastal British…
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Journal Watch: Let them run
“Ask not what a park can do for spawning salmon. Ask what robust salmon runs could do for the park – and for coastal fishing communities.” Read the story about Raincoast’s proposal for including wildlife in salmon management…
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Message in a bottle
As part of an effort to understand ocean currents, and how they would influence a potential oil spill, the Institute of Ocean Sciences teamed up with the Gitga’at First Nation and Raincoast to drop “drift bottles” into the Pacific Ocean.
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‘Criticism of sea lice study unfounded’ says Raincoast
Raincoast’s executive director Chris Genovali and salmon biologist Michael Price respond to industry criticism of our sea lice study in the Courier-Islander…
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Sea lice study called misleading
Sea lice from fish farms appear to have spread to wild salmon in a much wider area of coastal B.C. than previously believed, shows a newly published paper by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation…
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Lice affect more salmon than thought, study says
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
November 11, 2010Sea lice from fish farms appear to have spread to wild salmon in a much wider area of coastal B.C. than previously believed, a newly published study concludes…
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Raincoast responds to industry criticism of sea lice paper
Raincoast biologist Michael Price responds to criticism from the fish farm industry leveled against his peer-reviewed paper recently published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences…
