Media release: ‘We’re nowhere near a ‘world class oil spill response’

Published on 2016 10 19 | by Raincoast | in Backgrounders

Fuel spill in Heiltsuk Territory underscores rhetoric in federal and provincial messaging as environmental damage builds in the Great Bear Rainforest…

Bear work in Heiltsuk Territory – Guest blog by Ayla Brown

Published on 2014 06 27 | by Raincoast | in Raincoast Blog

“So what are you doing anyways?” People have been asking me this a lot recently. Answer: Setting up hair snares in the Great Bear Rainforest…

Fire in Bella Bella

Published on 2013 07 16 | by Kyle Artelle, PhD | in In the News

At 4 am on July 12 a fire swept through one of the most important buildings in Bella Bella, housing the band store, the post office, liquor store, and Qqs Projects Society…

First Nations combine science with legacy of conservation

Published on 2011 08 10 | by Raincoast | in In the News

By Anne Casselman, Scientific American

For the Heiltsuk First Nation, science is proving to be one of the most powerful tools at their disposal as far as asserting their tradition of safeguarding natural resources for, as their elders put it, their children yet to come…