Drift cards released on Fraser River to simulate pipeline oil spill risk
Larry Pynn / Vancouver Sun
400 drift cards were released into the Fraser River to better understand where a Kinder Morgan oil spill might go…
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‘This could be oil’: Drift cards tossed into Fraser River to simulate oil spill
Emily Jackson / Metro
Four hundred plywood drift cards stamped with the warning “This could be oil” were tossed into the Fraser River Tuesday to simulate how far oil could travel… -
Organizers of oil spill simulation ask for help from B.C. residents
Jen St. Denis / Business In Vancouver
Two environmental groups are asking British Columbians to help them track where and how oil would spill in the waters around Vancouver in the event of a tanker leak… -
Simulation to show impact of potential oil spill in Burrard Inlet
Peter Meiszner / Global News
The City of Vancouver is teaming up with two environmental groups to conduct an oil spill simulation Tuesday on the Fraser River and in Burrard Inlet… -
Adopt a drift card to help protect our coast
Our drift card study is a perfect example of research that creatively meshes science with public awareness…
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Media Release: Public participation required for oil spill simulation
Raincoast and the Georgia Strait Alliance are teaming up with the City of Vancouver today to conduct an oil spill simulation on the Fraser River and in Burrard Inlet…
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Can grizzly bear watchers end B.C.’s trophy hunt?
The Georgia Strait interviews Raincoast scientists on the science and politics behind the grizzly hunt
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Indigenous knowledge and science unite to reveal distributional shift in wildlife
Study by Raincoast and partners discusses the movement of grizzlies from BC’s mainland onto coastal islands in the journal PLOS ONE…
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Study confirms grizzlies living on unprotected coastal islands
Cara McKenna / The Tyee
Local guide’s knowledge, now backed by research from Raincoast and partners, raises major conservation concerns for bears on BC’s coast… -
It makes more economic sense to shoot grizzlies with cameras than guns
Chris Genovali / Huffington Post
Contrary to Minister Yamamoto’s assertions, there is no ecological, ethical, or economic justification for continuing to trophy kill B.C.’s grizzly bears… -
Grizzly bears more useful alive than dead
Chris Genovali / Times Colonist
One can only conclude the minister of tourism was poorly briefed with regard to the grizzly hunt after reading about her recent speech on Saltspring… -
Tourism minister’s grizzly comments baffling
Chris Genovali / Gulf Islands Driftwood
Our analysis showed that in the long term, it makes more economic sense to shoot grizzly bears with cameras than to shoot them with guns…
