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  • Southern Resident killer whales swim side by side in the Salish Sea, with joint partner logos on the right, including David Suzuki Foundation
    Conservation updates

    Critical situation for Southern Resident killer whales provokes call for urgent action

    2018 January 302024 July 8

    Only 76 Southern Resident killer whales remain. This is a critical situation. Today, represented by Ecojustice, and in collaboration with other science and environmental organizations, we are calling on the Canadian government to take immediate action to protect these whales…

    Read More Critical situation for Southern Resident killer whales provokes call for urgent actionContinue

  • A map of the proposed emergency order, with logos of the various orgs involved including Ecojustice and the David Suzuki Foundation.
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    Emergency order requested for Southern Resident killer whales: time is running out

    2018 January 302024 July 8

    Raincoast and its partners, represented by Ecojustice, are calling on federal cabinet ministers LeBlanc and McKenna to recommend cabinet issue an emergency order under Canada’s Species at Risk Act…

    Read More Emergency order requested for Southern Resident killer whales: time is running outContinue

  • A grizzly bear pulls on some brush along the shoreline
    Investigate and inform

    Letter: Protection of grizzly bears should be strengthened in the expansion of the Species at Risk Act

    2018 January 232024 October 8

    Raincoast supports the proposal to list 13 new terrestrial species to Schedule 1 of Canada’s Species at Risk Act. While we are encouraged by this, the focus of this submission is on grizzly bears…

    Read More Letter: Protection of grizzly bears should be strengthened in the expansion of the Species at Risk ActContinue

  • Aerial view of a humbpack whale.
    Investigate and inform

    Innovative new research advances marine conservation in BC’s coastal waters

    2017 August 102024 July 8

    Years of Raincoast surveying marine mammals combined with new mapping techniques provides new insight into areas for potential conservation priority in the waters adjacent to the Great Bear Rainforest…

    Read More Innovative new research advances marine conservation in BC’s coastal watersContinue

  • An assortment of figures from the paper, Quantifying marine mammal hotspots in British Columbia, Canada
    Scientific literature

    Research: Quantifying marine mammal hotspots in British Columbia, Canada

    2017 July 282024 July 8

    Building on Raincoast’s five years spent surveying marine mammals on the BC coast, a new approach to linking environmental conditions with marine mammal densities has identified hotspots of marine mammal biodiversity…

    Read More Research: Quantifying marine mammal hotspots in British Columbia, CanadaContinue

  • Southern Resident killer whale breaching from the waters of the Salish Sea with mountains in the background.
    In the media

    Big oil vs. big whale: Will pipeline trump iconic orca?

    2016 May 282024 July 8

    If you don’t live on the West Coast, perhaps it’s hard to appreciate just how poorly approving an oil pipeline at the expense of an endangered population of killer whales might play out.

    Read More Big oil vs. big whale: Will pipeline trump iconic orca?Continue

  • Three orcas swim in a pod from right to left, showing their dorsal fin.
    In the media

    Tired of waiting for feds, advocates take own path to protect orcas

    2015 April 52024 July 8

    Amy Smart / Times Colonist
    A group of orca advocates is making its own plans to protect endangered killer whales, saying a federal action plan is overdue…

    Read More Tired of waiting for feds, advocates take own path to protect orcasContinue

  • Orcas breaching, covered in water, in the sunlight
    In the media

    Will there be peace on Earth for killer whales?

    2014 December 52024 July 8

    Chris Genovali, Times Colonist
    ‘Peace on Earth’ should extend goodwill and compassion to the non-human families and communities with whom we share this planet…

    Read More Will there be peace on Earth for killer whales?Continue

  • Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in the boreal forest
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    Canada failing to protect habitat of imperilled species

    2014 November 282024 July 8

    Judith Lavoie / Desmog Canada
    Official recognition that a Canadian species is in trouble is no guarantee that the slide towards extinction can be slowed or halted, a new study has found…

    Read More Canada failing to protect habitat of imperilled speciesContinue

  • A humpback whale jumping out of the water.
    In the media

    Critics say Canada shouldn’t have taken Humpback Whales off the Endangered Species List

    2014 April 292024 July 8

    David P. Ball / VICE
    The Canadian government’s announcement that it’s knocking humpback whales off its endangered species list has critics pulling their “Save the whales!” signs from the 1980s out of storage…

    Read More Critics say Canada shouldn’t have taken Humpback Whales off the Endangered Species ListContinue

  • A humbpack feeds
    In the media | Investigate and inform

    Comment: Down-listing puts humpbacks in jeopardy

    2014 April 262024 July 8

    Misty MacDuffee & Chris Genovali
    Times Colonist
    The federal government intends to down-list the status of North Pacific humpback whales…

    Read More Comment: Down-listing puts humpbacks in jeopardyContinue

  • A humbpack feeds
    In the media

    Feds removal of humpback whales from at-risk list questioned

    2014 April 232024 July 8

    David P. Ball / 24 hours Vancouver
    Humpback whales were removed from Canada’s species-at-risk list Tuesday, a decision some scientists allege was fast-tracked under political pressure…

    Read More Feds removal of humpback whales from at-risk list questionedContinue

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