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

January 23, 2018July 6, 2021

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…

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

August 10, 2017November 23, 2022

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…

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Research: Quantifying marine mammal hotspots in British Columbia, Canada
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Research: Quantifying marine mammal hotspots in British Columbia, Canada

July 28, 2017November 12, 2017

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…

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

May 28, 2016July 14, 2020

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.

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

April 5, 2015May 31, 2019

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…

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Will there be peace on Earth for killer whales?
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Will there be peace on Earth for killer whales?

December 5, 2014November 23, 2022

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…

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Canada failing to protect habitat of imperilled species
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Canada failing to protect habitat of imperilled species

November 28, 2014December 8, 2014

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…

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

April 29, 2014October 24, 2014

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…

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Comment: Down-listing puts humpbacks in jeopardy
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Comment: Down-listing puts humpbacks in jeopardy

April 26, 2014March 16, 2016

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

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Feds removal of humpback whales from at-risk list questioned
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Feds removal of humpback whales from at-risk list questioned

April 23, 2014October 24, 2014

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…

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B.C.’s killer whales, at-risk species score victory in landmark court case
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B.C.’s killer whales, at-risk species score victory in landmark court case

December 9, 2010May 23, 2021

By Suzanne Fournier, The Province
December 8, 2010

A conservation coalition made up of nine groups, Ecojustice argued — and won — in court that the federal Fisheries and Oceans has failed to adequately protect killer whales…

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