University of Victoria | Raincoast Conservation Foundation

One night only – Patagonia’s Artifishal screening at the University of Victoria

Published on 2019 08 15 | by Raincoast | in Events

Artifishal, the movie by Patagonia, showing at Cinecenta at UVic.

Join us on Tuesday, August 27, at 7:00 pm for a film screening of Patagonia’s documentary, Artifishal, at the University of Victoria’s Cinecenta theatre located in the Student Union Building. Artifishal examines the harmful effects hatcheries…

Meet the team of applied conservation scientists at the University of Victoria

Published on 2019 01 23 | by Chris Darimont, Raincoast Director of Science | in Raincoast Blog

Chris Darimont looking off into the distance on the river with the sun coming through trees in the background.

Last year the Raincoast lab at UVic marked an important new milestone with the creation of the Raincoast Chair in Applied Conservation Science at the University of Victoria. This five year Chaired Professorship allows us to expand our research, teaching and outreach programs in community-driven applied conservation science. Our long-term vision is to train next […]

Salmonid species diversity predicts salmon consumption by terrestrial wildlife

Published on 2019 01 07 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature

A collage of images and graphs from a published peer reviewed article on salmonid species diversity and bear health: Hakai, Raincoast, University of Victoria, and Spirit Bear Foundation logos at the bottom.

Research by scientists at Spirit Bear Research Foundation, Raincoast Conservation Foundation, and the University of Victoria, led by Christina Service, shows that salmon species diversity – the number of spawning salmon species available – is far more important and positively related to salmon consumption in coastal black bears than biomass abundance…

The Salish Sea Emerging Stewards kick off

Published on 2018 10 16 | by Maureen Vo, Education and Development Coordinator | in Raincoast Blog

The light of the sun streams in between the trees on UVic campus.

We’re very excited to be kicking off the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards Program this week with youth from the Indigenous Leadership program and other youth from the Cowichan School District. We’re in the first phase of our new three part Salish Sea Stewards program. This is the land-based preliminary learning phase where we’ll be introducing […]

Mismeasured mortality: correcting estimates of wolf poaching in the United States

Published on 2018 04 13 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature

Journal of Mammalogy cover for research published on mismeasured risks of poaching due to bias.

This research tests and rejects the long-held idea that data lost when known animals disappear were unbiased, under conditions common to most, if not all, studies using marked animals. Published government estimates are affected by the biases discovered. And so government estimates of systemically underestimating risks of poaching…

New study casts doubt on scientific basis of wildlife management in North America, offers a way forward

Published on 2018 03 07 | by Kyle Artelle, PhD | in For the coast

Wolf stands in the intertidal zone amidst the rock and seaweed, looking at the photographer, Kyle Artelle.

A new study, “Hallmarks of science missing from North American wildlife management”, released today in the AAAS Open Access journal Science Advances, identified four key hallmarks expected of science-based management: clear objectives, use of evidence, transparency and external review. Combined, these hallmarks provide the checks and balances that give rigour to science-based approaches…

Applied Ecology: Hallmarks of science missing from North American wildlife management

Published on | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature

A map of North America and then in text it says, An assessment of 667 wildlife management systems across Canada and the USA found that key hallmarks of science were missing...

A new study, “Hallmarks of science missing from North American wildlife management”, published by Science Advances , challenges a widespread assumption that wildlife management in North America is science-based. Scientists from Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, and the University of Wisconsin – Madison examined management documents relating to most hunted species across […]

Events: Tall Tales, Long Lenses and Wildlife Conservation with John E. Marriott

Published on 2018 01 26 | by Ross Dixon, Communications & Development Director | in Events

Tall Tales, Long Lenses, Book cover by John E. Marriot

Join renowned wildlife photographer John E. Marriott and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation for an evening of inspiring stories about BC’s wildlife and its conservation. February 20th and 21st in Victoria and Vancouver, John will share stories and photographs from his latest book…

Research: Quantifying marine mammal hotspots in British Columbia, Canada

Published on 2017 07 28 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature

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

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…