Simulation to show impact of potential oil spill in Burrard Inlet
Peter Meiszner / Global News
The City of Vancouver is teaming up with two environmental groups to conduct an oil spill simulation Tuesday on the Fraser River and in Burrard Inlet…
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Adopt a drift card to help protect our coast
Our drift card study is a perfect example of research that creatively meshes science with public awareness…
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Media Release: Public participation required for oil spill simulation
Raincoast and the Georgia Strait Alliance are teaming up with the City of Vancouver today to conduct an oil spill simulation on the Fraser River and in Burrard Inlet…
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Can grizzly bear watchers end B.C.’s trophy hunt?
The Georgia Strait interviews Raincoast scientists on the science and politics behind the grizzly hunt
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Indigenous knowledge and science unite to reveal distributional shift in wildlife
Study by Raincoast and partners discusses the movement of grizzlies from BC’s mainland onto coastal islands in the journal PLOS ONE…
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Study confirms grizzlies living on unprotected coastal islands
Cara McKenna / The Tyee
Local guide’s knowledge, now backed by research from Raincoast and partners, raises major conservation concerns for bears on BC’s coast… -
It makes more economic sense to shoot grizzlies with cameras than guns
Chris Genovali / Huffington Post
Contrary to Minister Yamamoto’s assertions, there is no ecological, ethical, or economic justification for continuing to trophy kill B.C.’s grizzly bears… -
Grizzly bears more useful alive than dead
Chris Genovali / Times Colonist
One can only conclude the minister of tourism was poorly briefed with regard to the grizzly hunt after reading about her recent speech on Saltspring… -
Tourism minister’s grizzly comments baffling
Chris Genovali / Gulf Islands Driftwood
Our analysis showed that in the long term, it makes more economic sense to shoot grizzly bears with cameras than to shoot them with guns… -
Population genetic structure of gray wolves in a marine archipelago…
Researchers find differences between BC’s coastal and mainland wolves. Published in BMC Ecology
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Roadside bear kills raise monitoring concerns
Cara McKenna / Nanaimo Daily News
Two mutilated black bears found on a roadside have prompted Raincoast to compare Vancouver Island’s remote hunting areas to the wild west… -
Grizzly bears have colonized unprotected islands in the Great Bear Rainforest: Media Release
A collaboration of wildlife scientists from Raincoast, UVic and the Spirit Bear Research Foundation of the Kitisoo -Xais’ Xais’ Nation have published a study in the international peer-reviewed journal, PLOS ONE, documenting grizzly bears on the move to coastal islands.
