Tag: wolves | Raincoast Conservation Foundation

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 Blog

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 Commentary, 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…

Poisoning Canada’s wolves with strychnine is unacceptable: journal comment

Published on 2015 07 14 | by Raincoast | in Animal Welfare, Coastal Wolves, Commentary, Scientific Literature

Wolves splash around in an intertidal zone of the Great Bear Rainforest

Raincoast scientists publish a comment in the Cambridge journal ‘Environmental Conservation’: the use of strychnine to poison wolves is unacceptable.

Witnessing extinction: habitat loss, caribou and the wolf cull

Published on 2015 05 14 | by Raincoast | in Press Releases

Wolves standing in the cross hairs of a gun sight

Eight environmental groups applaud a recently published scientific report that reveals how much habitat the caribou in the South Peace region have lost…