Sounding the alarm: The federal draft Ocean Noise Strategy falls short
Why Canada’s draft Ocean Noise Strategy misses the mark.
Federal promises made for endangered whales during TMX approval are unfulfilled
Southern Resident killer whales need protective orders to facilitate recovery.
Using poop to identify individual killer whales
DNA can answer many questions about a killer whale’s health and family tree.
Reduced genetic diversity: another challenge facing the Southern Resident killer whales?
As charismatic mega-predators, killer whales have no equal. Historically feared, respected, in some cultures revered, we now know them to be intelligent and highly social. They also have fascinatingly strong ideas about what constitutes food, with different populations having vastly different preferred prey. Not surprisingly, then, the plight of the critically endangered salmon-eating Southern Resident…
Guide government action for Southern Resident killer whale recovery before Feb 19
The federal government is accepting your input through a survey, for this year’s recovery and threat reduction measures for Southern Resident killer whales.
Fly with care: avoiding disturbance when using drones to study cetaceans
Can drones disturb the animals that we strive to understand?
Meet Valeria Vergara, co-Director of Raincoast’s new Cetacean Research Program
We posed some questions to Valeria to get to know her better.
Recovery progress for endangered whales
2021 was the third year of collaborative efforts by the federal government, NGOs, and stakeholders to implement threat reduction measures.
Dr. Peter S. Ross to lead a new water contaminants program
There is an urgent need for a more comprehensive approach to monitoring water pollution in British Columbia. For these reasons, and more, we are excited to announce that Dr. Ross is leading the new Healthy Waters Program at Raincoast. He will bring new focus, and new reach, to our efforts to safeguard salmon, whales, and people.
Terminal 2 Backgrounder: Impacts on Southern Resident killer whales
The shipping expansion at the Deltaport terminal will place further stress on the Fraser estuary that has already lost more than 70% of its natural habitat. Raincoast is particularly concerned about the impacts from the terminal on Fraser Chinook salmon and Southern Resident killer whales…
Spirits of the Coast – live event
Join us on July 22 for an unique evening bringing together contributors from the book, Spirits of the Coast. Hear from Jess Housty, Nikki Iyolo Sanchez, Misty MacDuffee and Eric Mazimpaka, as they discuss their own connection to killer whales…
A bond through salmon, language and grandmothers
The book was produced to accompany the Royal BC Museum’s 2020 feature exhibition Orcas: Our Shared Future which, due to the pandemic, is rescheduled to now open in May 2021…