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A collection of films and videos involving the Raincoast team and important conservation issues.
[youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU3emD_0HLk] The Canadian Federal government is pushing a proposal to ship tar sands oil by tanker through Canada’s Inside Passage . These tankers must navigate dog leg channels, rocky courses, unpredictable and sometimes violent weather after leaving the proposed terminal in Kitimat, BC. These routes would bring tankers into BC’s productive, diverse and fragile…
Done in production with National Geographic, this trailer highlights the full length feature on large carnivores and Raincoast’s work to protect them in the Great Bear Rainforest.
In 2007, the crew surveyed the stormy waters off BC’s central and north coast until December, in order to expand our understanding of abundance and distribution patterns of animals throughout the year…
Watch video here. Reporting by CTV. Raincoast believes that the most serious threat to coastal grizzly bears, both in the short term and into the future, is the lack of security for salmon.
Department of Biology, McGill University Introduction to Paleolimnological techniques: What can lake sediments can tell us about past salmon abundance?
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington Translating variation in sediment 15N into pre-historical salmon population dynamics.
Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University The fate of salmon-derived nutrients: Insights from lake studies in Alaska.
Department of Biology, University of Regina The importance of salmon-derived nutients on lake ecosystems
Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada Escapement data pitfalls and time series reconstructions for paleoindicators
Wild Salmon in Trouble Video – at the Watershed Watch site Watershed Watch produced the animation ‘Wild Salmon in Trouble’ to clarify why sea lice are a problem for wild salmon and to provide an overview of the salmon life cycle so the public can make informed decisions regarding the seafood they purchase.
The lands and waters of Canada’s Pacific coast support an astonishing diversity of marine birds. Millions breed here every year and millions more migrate, rest, overwinter and feed here. With industrial projects, such as oil tankers and pipelines, being proposed for the lands and waters of the Great Bear Rainforest, the marine birds of our…
Grizzly Bears are under pressure from hunting, habitat loss and declining food supply. In 2005, Raincoast and its partners at the Institute of Ocean Sciences and the University of Victoria, published a paper on an additional concern, the threat from global pollution. This paper documented the presence of Persistent Organic Pollutants (such as DDT and…