Big oil v orcas: Canadians fight pipeline that threatens killer whales
The Guardian: Trans Mountain Expansion project poses the greatest risk yet to a killer whale population on the edge of extinction…
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Vote for Raincoast in the Phillips Benefit Brew contest
Raincoast is a finalist in the Phillips Benefit Brew contest. Read about the initiative below and vote for us…
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A Diesel Spill is putting the World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest at Risk
Almost three weeks later, the sunken tug is still there, still intermittently leaking diesel, and clean-up efforts have barely begun…
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Purchasing Commercial Hunting Territories
IMAGINE if your conservation investment could go directly to protecting the lives of wild animals, now and forever. End the trophy hunt by helping us purchase commercial hunting licenses. Threats to bears and wolves For tomorrow’s children to see wild bears and wolves in coastal British Columbia, bold new conservation efforts are required. Coastal bears face…
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Notes from the Field: After the spill
As a Raincoast biologist privileged to call Waglisla (Bella Bella) in Heiltsuk Territory home, this is a story I wish I wasn’t writing…
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Trophy hunting of cougars may increase cougar-human conflict, study finds
Cougar trophy hunting in B.C. is linked to human conflicts, according to a study published Monday by researchers from the University of Victoria, the University of Cape Town and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation…
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Death of L95 and the lives of Southern Resident killer whales
Misty MacDuffee speaks with Roundhouse Radio about the life and death of Southern Resident killer whales…
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Storm slowing down clean up of “sickening” oil spill on west coast
More than 60% of the Heiltsuk First Nation’s harvesting clam beds have already been destroyed and the impact on salmon, kelp and herring in the months to come could be severe…
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We’re nowhere near a ‘world class oil spill response’
Fuel spill in Heiltsuk Territory underscores rhetoric in federal and provincial messaging as environmental damage builds in the Great Bear Rainforest…
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Submissions and public documents on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project
Putting the Great Bear Rainforest at risk, the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project posed serious implications for the wildlife of coastal British Columbia through habitat destruction associated with increased tanker traffic and the very real threat of diluted bitumen spills. Raincoast was an intervenor in the CEAA/ NEB (joint panel) review process and, along with First Nations, filed legal challenges to the project’s approval by the NEB and the federal government. Those legal challenges were successful and upheld by the Canadian Federal government.
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Science & conservation for an oil free coast – Sidney Shaw Centre
Join Raincoast and the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea to be informed and inspired by our legal and scientific efforts to keep our coast oil free…
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Science & conservation for an oil free coast – UVic
Join Raincoast and UVic’s Society of Geography Students (SOGs) to be informed and inspired by our legal and scientific efforts to keep our coast oil free…
