Take a closer look at shipping effects in Salish Sea
This past week’s Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference in Vancouver provided an in-depth look at the threats facing this ecologically, economically and culturally important marine environment.
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Raincoast reps at Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
Raincoast biologists are at the Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference this week discussing their work in the Salish Sea and the Fraser Estuary.
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B.C. grizzly bear hunt to include Great Bear Rainforest
B.C.’s spring grizzly bear hunt has opened for another year, with the government authorizing a limited number of bears to be killed in parts of the province – including the Great Bear Rainforest.
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Dread is vanishing from the animal world. Here’s why that’s a bad thing.
A Raincoast researcher and his university collaborators document how raccoons respond to the threatening sounds of large carnivores, and how this “landscape of fear” affects the health of ecosystems.
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Research: Fear of large carnivores causes a trophic cascade
Raincoast PhD candidate, Justin Suraci and colleagues publish study from BC’s Gulf Islands on the role of fear in maintaining healthy ecosystems.
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How top predators enforce balance in the ecosystem
The fear that top predators such as cougars, wolves and other large carnivores inspire in other animals cascades down the food chain and is critical to maintaining a healthy ecosystem.
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Fear itself can help restore ecosystems
A new study by Raincoast scientists and collaborators demonstrates that the fear top predators inspire can have cascading effects down the food chain critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems.
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Bear hunt has not ended in the Great Bear Rainforest
For those of you celebrating the announcement declaring “the end of commercial trophy hunting” in the Great Bear Rainforest, you can put away the champagne.
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Bears left out of the Great Bear Rainforest agreement
While the announcement by the premier and Minister Steve Thomson essentially endorses the effort to buy out commercial trophy hunting businesses, it commits no direct support, nor does it address trophy hunting by BC residents which accounts for 60% of the grizzly kill in the Great Bear Rainforest and in the rest of province.
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Conservation groups urge the NEB to reject Kinder Morgan pipeline
“The quantity of Kinder Morgan’s evidence does not make it quality evidence,” said Karen Campbell, Ecojustice lawyer for Raincoast and Living Oceans.
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Eco-tourism worth billions trumps value of Kinder Morgan project, new report argues
A new report tears into the Kinder Morgan TMX application, saying the company’s environmental assessments show a lack of scientific rigour.
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Even without spill, tankers are risky: report
The 108-page report released by Raincoast says various studies have shown Canada is ill prepared to deal with a large oil spill in southern B.C. waters.
