Grizzly hunt begins – Global TV
Raincoast wants an end to the grizzly hunt. Global BC News Hour coverage includes interviews with Raincoast’s Dr. Chris Darimont and photographer Andrew Wright…
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Grizzly Bear hunt begins again: Groups want event banned
Global News:
The grizzly bear hunt started April 1st, and groups such as the David Suzuki Foundation and Raincoast want the annual trophy hunt to be stopped… -
Salmon management should include bears, whales, and other wildlife
As last year’s returning wild Pacific salmon headed upstream, scientists spawned a thought-provoking proposal about how taking less salmon might bring more benefits to both ecosystems and economies…
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Wildlife should be treated better: study
Animal-welfare rules that apply to animals in captivity like pets and farm animals should also apply to wildlife, says a newly published study by scientists from the Victoria-based Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
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Stop the needless killing of British Columbia’s grizzly bears
A disturbing number of grizzlies are killed in the Bella Coola Valley on Canada’s Pacific coast because of avoidable human behaviour, but existing legislation to prevent these deaths are virtually unenforceable.
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Now protect grizzly habitat
Letter to the Editor, Edmonton Journal Re: Grizzlies at risk: province; Dwindling bears given threatened status, The Journal, June 4. Sustainable Resource Development Minister Mel Knight should be commended for finally listing the province’s grizzly bears as a threatened species and for keeping the trophy hunting ban in place. However, he falls critically short by…
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Salmon for wildlife
Elected officials need to hear public support for allocating salmon to bears. The federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans makes decisions every day that effect the allocation of salmon to various interests. Until very recently, wildlife were never mentioned in the decision-making process. Now, a policy exists that states the ecosystem, specifically bears and other…
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Field Notes: Saving our bears
Outpost Magazine, April 2010, by Chris Darimont In one of Nature’s most elegant pas de daux, salmon and bear engage in a delicate dance for survival. The bear is losing… We’re searching for solutions to one of the most critical questions facing coastal B.C. today: how to guarantee grizzlies enough salmon to ensure their survival….
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Not your average bear
As Raincoast’s research vessel Achiever pulled into the inlet on British Columbia’s north coast I glassed the port side shoreline with my binoculars, checking for wildlife. It was that magical time right before dusk when unexpected and unusual things often manifest in the coastal fall alpenglow.
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Isn’t there a better way to manage bears?
SPRING HUNT 2010 By Chris Genovali A new decade has dawned, but this month yet another year of grizzly bear hunting will commence in British Columbia. The B.C. grizzly bear hunt has been a source of unrelenting controversy. Both sides are stuck in a continual expert-driven argument in which each camp claims science supports their…
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Notes from the Blood Shed
By Ian Jansma, Research Assistant Denny Island Field Station When I signed up as a volunteer on Raincoast’s salmon-carnivore study, I didn’t realize I’d be spending my days up to my armpits in blood. In the moist, pungent darkness of the ‘Blood Shed’, I mix fish oil and cow’s blood into a frothy cocktail with…
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Let’s examine the morality of the trophy hunt
A version of this article first ran in the Vancouver Province, January 22, 2010. The B.C. grizzly bear hunt has been a source of unrelenting controversy. Both sides are stuck in an expert-driven argument in which both camps claim science supports their positions. It is time that the debate was conducted within the context of…
