Update: closing in on securing the Nadeea tenure
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…
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Mismeasured mortality: correcting estimates of wolf poaching in the United States
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…
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What next for coastal carnivore conservation?
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…
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On our way to securing the Nadeea tenure
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…
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Next step for safeguarding large carnivores in the Great Bear Rainforest
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…
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Miley Cyrus, Pamela Anderson are right on BC’s wolf cull
Chris Genovali and Paul Paquet/Huffington Post
Actress Pamela Anderson and singer Miley Cyrus have rightly weighed in on BC’s wolf cull… -
Cecil the lion and compassionate conservation
Chris Genovali and Paul Paquet/Vancouver Sun
The senseless killing of Cecil the lion has catalyzed a worldwide discussion about the gratuitous trophy hunting of large carnivores… -
Compassionate conservation and the wolf:
Among the most studied of large wild mammals, wolves will always hold a special fascination for our supporters, the Raincoast staff, and me…
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Poisoning Canada’s wolves with strychnine is unacceptable: journal comment
Raincoast scientists publish a comment in the Cambridge journal ‘Environmental Conservation’: the use of strychnine to poison wolves is unacceptable.
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Witnessing extinction: habitat loss, caribou and the wolf cull
Eight environmental groups applaud a recently published scientific report that reveals how much habitat the caribou in the South Peace region have lost…
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Wolf and caribou management backgrounder
Raincoast’s Dr. Paul Paquet provides an overview on the fallacy of killing wolves to recover caribou…
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Wolf murder Canadian style continues as if it’s conservation
Marc Bekoff/Psychology Today
An earlier murder escapade in Alberta didn’t work and there’s no reason to assume this one will…
