Help Raincoast win a $3,000 grant from SEEtheWILD
Help Raincoast win a $3,000 grant from SEEtheWILD for our efforts to protect BC’s endangered southern resident killer whales! Find out how…
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23rd Anniversary of Exxon Valdez: Have we learned anything?
The answer appears to be a resounding “no,” given the support to expand Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and the dramatic escalation in oil tanker traffic that will accompany it…
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Raincoast calls on military to respect the critical habitat of killer whales
The suspicious death of L112 warrants full disclosure by the Canadian military of sonar and other training activities that were occurring in the Juan de Fuca at the time of the whale’s death. Click for the CHEK TV story…
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Naval Gazing: Military must address activities in Killer whale critical habitat
VANCOUVER – Eight BC conservation organizations are urging the Canadian Navy to exclude military training exercises from the critical habitat of southern resident killer whales…
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Tagging plan threatens southern resident orcas
Island Tides
By Misty MacDuffee and Chris GenovaliRaincoast contends that the nominal information generated from deploying satellite tags to the fins of endangered killer whales does not justify the risk of serious injury…
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Government must protect orca habitat: court
Victoria Times Colonist
By Judith LavoieThe federal government is legally bound to protect killer whale critical habitat, the federal Court of Appeal ruled Thursday…
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Appeal court affirms protection for killer whales
Today’s decision from the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling that the critical habitat of killer whales, including their salmon food supply must be legally protected by the federal government…
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Opposition to orca tagging gathers pace
Victoria Times Colonist By Judith Lavoie
Canadian opposition grows to a US plan to attach satellite tags to endangered southern resident killer whales…
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Raincoast objects to US plan to dart killer whales
Radio interview with Raincoast’s Misty MacDuffee about a US plan to place satellite transmitters on killer whales…
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Raincoast: Unilateral tagging plan by US threatens killer whales
A US plan to tag the endangered southern resident killer whales that ply both sides of the international boundary is meeting with growing opposition…
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DFO seeks to undo important precedent for at-risk species
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 17, 2011VANCOUVER – Environmental groups vowed today to fight DFO’s appeal of a decisive and precedent-setting Federal Court ruling that declared that DFO must protect critical habitat of killer whales…
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Legal Victory for resident Killer Whales
A precedent setting legal victory that forces the Canadian federal government to protect the critical habitat of BC’s resident killer whales (salmon eaters) was won this week. CFAX host Murray Langdon speaks with Raincoast’s Misty MacDufee about the case and what it means for the whales. Click here to listen (MP3). Download the judges decision Killer Whale Judgement…
