An influx of information
Lauren Mitchell, intern on Raincoast’s wild salmon team, is researching how to best to go about calculating the number of salmon the Lower Fraser River and estuary are able to support.
Notes from the Field – Spring in the Great Bear Rainforest
Spring is a special time for our research crews. Across the lands and waters of the Great Bear Rainforest bears are emerging from dens …
Publication Summary
List of Raincoast’s peer-reviewed journal publications produced by our wolf, wild salmon, grizzly and marine programs to 2014
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…
Population genetic structure of gray wolves in a marine archipelago…
Researchers find differences between BC’s coastal and mainland wolves. Published in BMC Ecology
Kick off to Bella Bella Bear Season
The 2014 field season of grizzly research in the Great Bear Rainforest is underway; being led by Raincoast and the Heiltsuk Nation…
Hello from the Great Bear!
Blog post from the field by Hannah Kobluk
My name is Hannah and I am one of the new members of the Raincoast field research team in Bella Bella this year…
Victoria researcher gains fame for big-shrink theory
By Judith Lavoie, Victoria Times Colonist Predatory behaviour of humans is causing some species to shrink at an unprecedented rate, says a Victoria research scientist whose study has been deemed one of the top science stories of last year.