Exploring the Southern Great Bear Rainforest aboard SV Achiever
Right now, we are raising funds to purchase the 18,239 km2 Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure, more than a quarter of the Great Bear Rainforest.
Meet Allison Dennert, Raincoast’s new Quantitative Salmon Ecologist
Allison Dennert has joined our Wild Salmon Program team as a Quantitative Salmon Ecologist.
New research proves that nutrients from the sea can increase terrestrial plant growth and reproduction
Newly published research from Simon Fraser University shows that salmon and marine plants increase both growth and reproduction in terrestrial plants.
We are working towards ending commercial trophy hunting in the Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure
We are raising funds to purchase one of our biggest tenures yet, the 18,239 km2 Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure, and have until December 2023 to raise $1.92 million.
This giving season, Raincoast offers you two opportunities to double the impact of your donations!
To celebrate the end of the year, we are so happy to be able to offer matching campaigns on two of our most urgent fundraising initiatives.
A bright-spot for bear conservation
On this episode of the Future Ecologies podcast, Doug (Muq’vas Glaw) Neasloss and Kyle Artelle illustrate the issues with the NAM by telling the story of provincial management of grizzly bear hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest. However, they also illustrate an alternative to the NAM, a decolonial model rooted in Indigenous sovereignty that has made the Great Bear Rainforest a bright-spot for bear conservation .
Collecting bear hair: more than a field season
The Bear Project, originally started in 2006 by William Housty and his team at QQS (Eyes) Projects Society, focuses on gaining a greater understanding of bears in Heiltsuk territory.
Our down payment is in…are you?
Since we launched our campaign to purchase Raincoast’s sixth commercial trophy hunting tenure, we have raised nearly $290,000!
Safeguarding coastal carnivores in the Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure
We are raising funds to purchase the biggest tenure (18,239 km2) remaining on the central/south coast, the Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure.
Shooting wildlife with cameras, not guns: the new conservation economy
Eliminating commercial trophy hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest will give us and our guests on the Afterglow I the chance to enjoy thriving, healthy ecosystems and we are proud of the small role we played in making this happen.
Launching our newest tenure acquisition
At 18,239 km2 it covers a quarter of the Great Bear Rainforest.
DNA analysis of grizzly bears aligns with Indigenous languages
On the central coast, genetic analyses have identified three genetic groups of grizzly bears — bears are more likely to be related to other bears within their own group than to bears in another group.