No buffer left: Southern Residents face too many threats
Too little food. Too much noise. Too much pollution. Ship strikes. This is how extinction happens – one added pressure at a time.
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Herring eggs can’t get away from disaster
Don’t build new risks into herring’s nursery. Robert’s Bank Terminal 2 and West Coast Oil Pipeline would add different pressures to the same nearshore waters. Pacific herring should not have to absorb both.
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Marsh restoration projects in the Lower Fraser River; No.2 Road
Using big tools for small salmon.
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Study: Young Fraser River Chinook salmon swimming in chemical soup
There’s a mixture of chemicals in the Lower Fraser, which not only presents potential risks to juvenile Chinook, but also other aquatic life.
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What our estuary salmon fieldwork crews are up to
Reflections from seven (going on eight) years of fieldwork in the Fraser River Estuary.
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Habitat restoration occurring in the Woods Island Marsh in the Fraser River Estuary
We are restoring marsh habitats to improve conditions for juvenile salmon and other wildlife.
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Small-scale marsh creation
Daniel Stewart, Conservation Decisions Lab, Ducks Unlimited Canada, and Raincoast are all working in the Fraser River Estuary.
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New research shows the impact log booms have on salmon habitats in the Fraser Estuary
The study found that log booms impact physical habitat, water quality, and invertebrates in the lower Fraser River and Estuary.
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Restoring habitat, restoring connectivity in the Fraser River Estuary
The breaches we created in the North Arm and Steveston Jetties have seen immediate success, which is rare for a habitat restoration project.
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Fish passage through our habitat restoration projects in the Lower Fraser River and Estuary
We have created a new map to show the success we’ve observed at our habitat restoration sites.
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Construction starts this week!
This week, we are starting the construction of a second breach in the North Arm jetty.
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The rights of the river: could granting legal personhood for the Fraser River estuary spur its protection?
In New Zealand and Quebec, communities have successfully pushed for some form of Rights of Nature laws to be accorded to ecosystems around them.
