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  • A wolf is seen via trail cam imagery as they stop to poop.
    Investigate and inform

    What does a wolf eat in a year?

    2026 January 52026 January 5

    What does a wolf eat over the course of a year? How can we find out? Through scat analysis!  As we head into 2026, we wanted to share some results from our scat analysis work documenting what recovering wolf populations eat throughout the seasons. While it’s well known that wolves have a strong appetite for…

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  • A wolf lies down on a gentle slope in the snow and looks out over the low area.
    Tracking Raincoast

    Protection and conservation of gray wolves

    2025 December 222025 December 18

    Using minimally invasive methods to assess wolf behaviour and ecology, improve welfare through informed conservation policies, and identify key habitats for conservation.

    Read More Protection and conservation of gray wolvesContinue

  • A wolf stands on a beach using her mouth to pull a rope connected to a crab trap.
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    Wolves, tools, and intelligence

    2025 December 12025 December 5

    New evidence of complex problem-solving in wolves expands our understanding of their intelligence and underscores the need for ethical, evidence-based conservation.

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  • A lone sandy brown wolf trots along a calm beach, a dark line of dense trees behind them.
    Investigate and inform

    Together, let’s rewrite the story of wolves in BC

    2025 October 202025 October 21

    Protecting wolves is about more than one species—it’s about protecting ecosystems.

    Read More Together, let’s rewrite the story of wolves in BCContinue

  • Three wolves stand in the intertidal zone, on rocks covered in seaweed and kelp, looking out onto the water.
    Tracking Raincoast

    Wolves, whales, and water

    2025 January 132025 January 13

    We have completed our analysis of inbreeding across Resident killer whale populations, yielding some interesting results.

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  • Wolf crossing a road towards a snow covered forest.
    Investigate and inform

    Wolf Stories: Killing in the name of conservation

    2024 June 252024 December 13

    Ethical and welfare considerations for lethally and non-lethally controlling wild animals.

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  • Trail camera photo of a wolf walking on the side of a creek.
    Investigate and inform

    Wolf Stories: Animal welfare and the evolution of animal ethics

    2024 February 62024 December 13

    In this article, we’ve interviewed David Fraser (C.M., Ph.D.), a Professor Emeritus in the Animal Welfare Program at the University of British Columbia. His 50-year research career has focused on the welfare and management of both free-living and captive wildlife, as well as farm and laboratory animals. In this interview, we explore the history of…

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  • Two wolves walking in the snow.
    Scientific literature

    Letter in Science states that Canada’s wolf cull subsidizes industry

    2024 February 12024 December 13

    British Columbia must reevaluate its caribou habitat protection policies and do better by its environment and its citizens, argues Raincoast scientists.

    Read More Letter in Science states that Canada’s wolf cull subsidizes industryContinue

  • Coastal wolf with a salmon in its month.
    Tracking Raincoast

    Bridging science and ethics

    2023 December 232025 December 15

    Minimally invasive research techniques to study wolves.

    Read More Bridging science and ethicsContinue

  • Adam Warner wearing a lab coat sitting in a lab.
    Raincoast updates

    Meet Dr. Adam Warner, Raincoast’s new Conservation Genetics Scientist

    2023 December 212024 October 23

    Adam has joined our Cetacean Conservation Program to head up Raincoast’s new Conservation Genetics Lab.

    Read More Meet Dr. Adam Warner, Raincoast’s new Conservation Genetics ScientistContinue

  • Wolf walking on a coastline.
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    Join us for a webinar about our Safeguarding Coastal Carnivores campaign 

    2023 December 72024 October 8

    In this bonus episode of Wolf School, we will go over our 25 year history of purchasing tenures and learn about a relational approach to coexistence.

    Read More Join us for a webinar about our Safeguarding Coastal Carnivores campaign Continue

  • Chavon Robertshaw wearing a black tee shirt standing in front of trees smiling.
    Raincoast updates

    Meet Chavon Robertshaw, Raincoast’s Conservation Science Technician

    2023 November 172024 July 8

    Chavon Robertshaw has joined our Lower Fraser Salmon Conservation and Wolf Conservation Programs as a Conservation Science Technician. Utilizing the education and hands-on training she gained through a diploma program at BCIT, she will be contributing to research efforts and data collection such as surveying Pacific salmon, collecting genetic samples for both salmon and wolf…

    Read More Meet Chavon Robertshaw, Raincoast’s Conservation Science TechnicianContinue

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