Looking for the Grizzly Bar? Our contest is over, but some Grizzly Bars are still out there. On July 1st, we drew the winner who won an epic trip with us on Achiever. Thanks everyone who participated! List of BC Locations List of locations elsewhere Amaranth Whole Foods, Calgary, St. AlbertDad’s Organic Market, SaskatoonPaper Pipit, Thornhill, ONSan…
Even when we aren’t having a contest for a free trip in the Great Bear Rainforest, we get questions about journeys in the Great Bear Rainforest. Thank you to everyone who is supporting our efforts to save the great bears. And thank you to Denman Island Chocolate for making this once in a lifetime trip…
Proceeds from your purchase of the Grizzly Bar will continue to go toward our purchase of the commercial trophy hunting tenures in the lands of Coastal First Nations, in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Preparing for another season, Nick finds himself inundated with tasks, plans and thoughts about the research and advocacy that Raincoast undertakes to protect bears and the coast they inhabit…
What is it like to go on a “grizzly hunt” in the Great Bear Rainforest aboard Raincoast’s 70ft research vessel the Achiever? This year, why not join us and find out…
From grizzlies and humpbacks to young Raincoasters and nudibranchs, follow the annual northward transit of Raincoast’s research vessel Achiever from Nanaimo to Bella Bella…
By Cara Mckenna, The Harbour City Star
Brian Falconer, a Protection Island resident, lives on Achiever for up to seven months per year while he is on research trips to the Great Bear Rainforest…
We left Vancouver Island’s rugged shore and steamed north toward a vast region known as the Great Bear Rainforest. Before us lay hundreds of miles of unspoiled coastline…
Seaside Times October 2011
Achiever is our coast guard certified steel sloop who safely carries us through wind and waves from anchor to anchor…
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.
Seaside Times
December 2010
By Chris Genovali
Captain Brian Falconer has headed Raincoast’s Marine Operations Program for the past eight years, overseeing the operation of our coast guard certified research vessel, Achiever…
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.