See you at the ‘fin’ish line!
Raincoast’s Salmon Team is training hard for the Good Life Marathon.
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Achiever at rest and at work
Check out these images of Raincoast’s research vessel Achiever ‘at rest and at work’ recently taken by our Field Station manager Doug Brown. The ‘at rest’ shot is the boat tied up at the Raincoast Field Station.
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Raincoast at the World Seabird Conference
By Caroline Fox
The first ever World Seabird Conference was held last week in Victoria (September 7-11, 2010). Over 800 participants from over 40 countries gathered… -
Humpback Out Back
Raincoast’s Doug Brown, photographer extraordinaire, recently took this amazing shot of a humpback whale within sight of our British Columbia central coast field station.
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Just say no to “certified organic” farmed salmon
While British Columbia (BC) farmed salmon could carry a certified organic label if the proposal by the Canadian General Standards Board and organic aquaculture working group at Fisheries and Oceans Canada gives the stamp of approval, the practices involved in raising salmon in open net-pens is antithetical to the spirit and intent of certification.
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The Grizzlies of August
Last Sunday Raincoast’s Field Station manager Doug Brown took this beautiful photograph of a mother grizzly bear with her three cubs in one of the Great Bear Rainforest’s central coast watersheds.
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Canadians pay attention to spill
Battle Creek Enquirer August 10, 2010 Re: “Canadians protest Enbridge expansion plans” (Enquirer, Aug. 2), British Columbians should be paying close attention to the Kalamazoo River spill and its aftermath.
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Farmed salmon fail organic test
Victoria Times Colonist, July 25, 2010 Re: “Farmed B.C. salmon could carry organic label under federal plan,” July 15. The proposal by the Canadian General Standards Board and the organic aquaculture working group at Fisheries and Oceans Canada to give the “organic stamp of approval” to B.C. farmed salmon raised in open-net pens is nothing…
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A Koeye Camp Idyll
by Bryce Bocking As the boat containing my fellow Raincoast colleagues and I drew near the Koeye River, memories of the last time I was here, nearly five years ago (at age fourteen), began to return. As a first year engineering student and volunteer with Raincoast, I looked forward to the following days I’d be…
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Join the fray
Time for BC boycott Calgary Herald, July 16, 2010 Edmonton Journal, July 18, 2010 Regarding the billboard ads urging Americans not to visit Alberta this summer, B.C. conservation groups might want to take a page from U.S. environmental organizations and adopt a similar campaign urging British Columbians to “rethink” travelling to Alberta.
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B.C. should get in on the act
Calgary Sun, July 16, 2010 Re: The billboard ads urging Americans not to visit Alberta. B.C. conservation groups might want to take a page from U.S. environmental organizations and adopt a similar campaign urging British Columbians to “rethink” travelling to Alberta.
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Kids of Kvai
Our time at Kvai (Koeye) is coming to an end far too quickly. This morning we had another fun day of learning and games. First, we learned about provisioning theory: some of the kids (including me) pretended to be chicks in nests of different sizes, begging their parents (other kids) for food (goldfish crackers). Nests…
