Purchasing for protection: A perpetual Sophie’s choice for conservationists
When property prices are too high to protect these places via purchase, can we count on public policy tools to safeguard CDF forests from further degradation?
Reflecting on the recent IPCC report and what we can do
Though the conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change report are grim, protecting and restoring natural ecosystems is an effective step.
Delegating to the Islands Trust: The 30×30 challenge
Forest Conservation Program Director Shauna Doll made a delegation to Islands Trust Council urging them to incorporate biodiversity protection.
Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 5: Experimental forest restoration methodologies
Together this community of practice has been developing new approaches to manage growing concerns around the degraded condition of BC’s forests.
Local engagement: letters to elected representatives can help make change
Raincoast scientists have been engaging in work related to conservation action on the Gulf Islands for many years.
Introducing the British Columbia Big Tree Project map
Raincoast’s Big Tree Project map will help connect BC-based community scientists with the big tree monitoring project nearest them.
Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 4: Managing fire in a climatically uncertain future
As previous installments of the Field Files series have established, since settler arrival in the Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) zone, forests have been extensively harvested. The consequence of this widespread, industrial-scale logging is predominantly second growth forests that are not only lacking in biodiversity and natural complexity, but also at a higher risk of burning in…
Land protection in some of Canada’s most threatened terrestrial habitats
Raincoast established the Forest Conservation Program (formerly known as the Gulf Islands Forest Project) in 2019 with the intention of exploring pathways to strengthen protection of the rare and threatened habitats characteristic to the Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) zone, particularly on the Gulf Islands. However, land in this region is disproportionately under private ownership, unlike the…
We did it! KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest has been protected!
KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest has been secured as an essential piece of a larger nature corridor.
Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 3: Mapping the watershed
Multiple practitioners working under the umbrella of the Maxwell Creek Watershed Project (MCWP or “the Project”) have contributed to this third instalment of the Field Files series, a photo essay illustrating the important role spatial data and mapping plays in establishing landscape-wide restoration projects. All maps were made by Nicholas Courtier, who also assisted with…
Over $2 million has been raised to protect KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest
It has been less than a year since we launched our campaign to permanently protect KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest and together we have already raised over $2 million.
All we want for the holidays is a belted kingfisher in a fir tree!
As we move into the last thirty days of our collaborative campaign to purchase and protect this 45 acre forest, we are reflecting on all of the reasons why conserving this habitat and others like it is so important.