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Your invitation to Wolf School

Published on 2020 08 13 | by Ross Dixon, Communications & Development Director | in Events

A close up on the face and mouth of a wolf with white and grey markings while it howls.

With close family ties and complex communication, wolves live lives that humans can easily empathize with across cultures. Yet, the wolf is still persecuted, including here in BC…

Research: Addressing poor statistical support for wolf control and maternal penning as conservation measures for endangered mountain caribou

Published on 2020 07 15 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature

A wolf walks across the beach in the early morning light, with figure 1 in the foreground.

The scientists looked closely at the data provided in a previous study that examined how 18 caribou populations responded to different treatments including wolf culls, maternal penning, moose reduction, and combinations thereof, as well as controls. There were important errors in the statistical methods associated with that prior study…

Wolves in BC need our support

Published on 2020 07 13 | by Raincoast | in Backgrounders

A darkly coloured wolf with black highlights walks across the sand in the intertidal zone.

In British Columbia, Canada, wolves continue to be killed through a variety of means. These include legal recreational hunting and trapping. Our goal is to stop the hunting and trapping of BC’s wolves. Our initial initiative includes educating the public about the biology, behavior and ecology of wolves and their current situation in British Columbia…

It’s time to take action for wolves in British Columbia

Published on 2020 04 07 | by Chris Genovali, Executive Director | in Conservation update

Takaya/Staqeya stands on Discovery Island.

BC’s wolves are killed through a variety of means, most of which are gratuitous, inhumane and unethical. These include legal hunting and trapping, as well as government sanctioned culling, the latter using such techniques as aerial gunning and neck snares…

Ecology and Evolution: Functional response of wolves to human development across boreal North America

Published on 2019 11 13 | by Raincoast | in Scientific Literature

Four wolves walk up a hill following a narrow path, research maps superimposed on top.

Previous research on how wolves are affected by human development have been limited in scope and location and the results were mixed. Wolves adapted in a range of ways depending on contextual factors like road or cutblock density. Research undertaken by a team of conservation scientists, including Paul Paquet of Raincoast Conservation Foundation, endeavoured to […]

Update: closing in on securing the Nadeea tenure

Published on 2018 11 06 | by Ross Dixon & Brian Falconer | in Raincoast updates

The Sitka donation-o-meter is at $313,000!

We now have bids on a number of pieces and we’ve sold limited editions prints. Thanks to numerous donations, large and small, we have now raised $313,182…

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…

What next for coastal carnivore conservation?

Published on 2018 01 29 | by Ross Dixon, Communications & Development Director | in Events

Achiever rests in the water, while a bear sniffs the air in the foreground on an outcropping of land.

In Victoria and Vancouver: We have teamed up with renowned wildlife photographer John E Marriott to present an evening of Tall Tales, Long Lenses and Wildlife Conservation. Don’t miss it…

On our way to securing the Nadeea tenure

Published on 2017 12 14 | by Brian Falconer, Guide Outfitter Coordinator | in Conservation update

A Sitka Spruce shows how much money we've already raised: $150,000.

We launched the campaign to raise $500,000 to purchase the Nadeea commercial hunting tenure the end of November. Now on behalf of Raincoast and our Coastal First Nations partners, I’m happy to report significant progress…

Next step for safeguarding large carnivores in the Great Bear Rainforest

Published on 2017 11 28 | by Brian Falconer, Guide Outfitter Coordinator | in Raincoast updates

A wolverine stands in a stream below a log overhead, with a salmon head hanging from its mouth.

Raincoast Conservation Foundation, with the support of Coastal First Nations, has struck a deal to buy a fourth trophy hunting licence in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. The exclusive commercial licence covers an area of more than 2,300 square kilometres of rich habitat for large carnivores, including grizzlies, black bears, Spirit bears, wolves…

Miley Cyrus, Pamela Anderson are right on BC’s wolf cull

Published on 2015 10 05 | by Raincoast | in For the coast, In the News

Chris Genovali and Paul Paquet/Huffington Post
Actress Pamela Anderson and singer Miley Cyrus have rightly weighed in on BC’s wolf cull…

Compassionate conservation and the wolf:

Published on 2015 07 23 | by Raincoast | in Notes from the Field

Among the most studied of large wild mammals, wolves will always hold a special fascination for our supporters, the Raincoast staff, and me…