Great Bear bound: congratulations Matthew Sanger
Thank you to everyone who participated, enjoyed a Grizzly Bar or two, donated, and entered to win the trip. We drew a winner and felt pretty thrilled when we got this response from the winner who is…
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BC’s marine mammals vulnerable to oil spills – especially killer whales
BC’s marine mammals are at high risk from oil spill impacts. Our understanding of this has been deepened by our newly published research paper that developed a framework to assess the impact of oil spills on marine mammals…
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New Raincoast research paper examines the “what if” of oil spills
New research examines 21 marine mammal species present in BC waters and ranked them according to the potential for deleterious consequences in the event of an oil spill…
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Rachel Notley not winning hearts or minds in B.C.
With multiple lawsuits before the courts, including one by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, and an anti-Trans Mountain provincial government taking power in British Columbia, Notley’s audacious guarantee seems intemperate at best. However, if Notley’s intention was to harden opposition in B.C. to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion…
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Research: Oil Spills and marine mammals – development and application of a risk-based conceptual framework
Using BC as a case study, this paper develops a framework for examining risk to oil spills faced by marine mammals. We found that in BC, killer whales (residents and transients), sea otters, and Steller sea lions face the greatest risk of population level consequences, but that many BC marine mammals are at elevated risk…
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And the winner is…
We met up today to draw the name of the lucky winner of our Save the Great Bears draw! We can’t thank you all enough for your smiles and energy and donations…
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Help us to consign the trophy hunt to history
Yes. Today is your last chance to win a unique 10 day adventure with Raincoast. Aboard our research vessel, Achiever, you’ll visit the estuaries and watersheds where bears…
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Fish-eating bears are fitter bears
New research by scientists at Raincoast and UVic shows how the lives of salmon and bears in BC are inextricably linked and underlines the importance of ecosystem protection to keep both species healthy…
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One week left to enter and win a trip in the Great Bear Rainforest
There’s one week left and everyone at Raincoast is hoping that if you haven’t already entered our contest, you will before July 1st. You can help us stop the killing of bears, and you can win a ten day trip in the Great Bear Rainforest…
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Research: Intrapopulation diversity in isotopic niche over landscapes: Spatial patterns inform conservation of bear–salmon systems
New dietary study reveals salmon hotspots for grizzly and black bears across 700,000 square kilometres
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New dietary study reveals salmon hotspots for grizzly and black bears across 700,000 square kilometres
This study represents a decade of work covering an area reaching 1000km into BC and provides resource managers – Indigenous and Western alike – with dietary information from hundreds of bears across thousands of square kilometres, shedding light on the ecological interconnections of ecology in the expansive bear-salmon-human system…
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Where the salmon-loving bears roam
After years of field work and collaboration, and months in the Raincoast lab, we’re very excited to share some insights from a new study, due for publication soon, that reveals habitat hotspots for grizzly bears across BC…
