Study: Young Fraser River Chinook salmon swimming in chemical soup
There’s a mixture of chemicals in the Lower Fraser, which not only presents potential risks to juvenile Chinook, but also other aquatic life.
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Salmon DNA enables new understanding of how young Chinook salmon use the Fraser River Estuary
Raincoast’s five year collection of genetic samples illuminates patterns of migration and reliance on estuary habitats.
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Canada has a chance to lead on the world stage with an improved Nature Accountability Act
Bill C-73 is a much-needed piece of legislation that would give the National Biodiversity Strategy legal teeth, and make it enforceable by the courts.
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Contact your MLA about the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion
The provincial government has a choice. They either act in their role to protect the integrity of south coast ecosystems in BC and their importance to our culture and economy, or they continue to make, and support, decisions that further their decline.
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Letter in Science identifies the contradiction between protecting economic growth and biodiversity in Canada’s Fraser River Estuary
The letter, asking whether Canada will permit killer whale extinction, identifies Canada’s conflicting aspirations and obligations to protect biodiversity while continuing to permit megaprojects that destroy the critical habitat of threatened and endangered species.
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We’re legally challenging the federal government’s approval of Roberts Bank Terminal 2
The Canadian government’s approval of Roberts Bank Terminal 2 violates federal law under the Species at Risk Act.
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Ottawa greenlights megaport project, furthering extinction trajectory of endangered killer whales
In approving Terminal 2, the federal government has seemingly ignored the findings of their own review process, which found the project will have lasting effects on threatened Chinook salmon and endangered southern resident killer whales.
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Despite a green light from Cabinet, Elizabeth May presents petition on Roberts Bank terminal expansion in the House of Commons
Our petition reached 4,239 signatures.
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Sign our official petition to tell the federal government to reject Roberts Bank Terminal 2
This is a legally binding petition. If we surpass 500 signatures, the petition is required to be presented to Steven Guilbeault in the House of Commons.
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Your voice is needed now to stop Roberts Bank Terminal 2
The clock is ticking for the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change to decide whether to approve or reject Roberts Bank Terminal 2.
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You cannot ‘offset’ extinction
Globally, only 15.5% of the world’s coastal regions remain ecologically intact. In British Columbia, the Fraser River Estuary has already lost 85% of its floodplain habitat and over 100 species that live there are at risk of extinction. Now, they face another threat.
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Rejecting the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion
n 2020, a federal review panel concluded that the Terminal 2 shipping expansion project would have significant adverse and cumulative effects to populations of Fraser Chinook.
