Northern Gateway risks Canada’s wild Pacific salmon
Misty MacDuffee & Chris Genovali / Island Tides
Consequences to Canada’s wild salmon from the Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project are not a risk worth taking…
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Herring: Food for the masses, food for all classes
These little silver fish feed and provide nutrients into the land and wildlife much the same way that salmon do…
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The economics and ethics of trophy hunting
Judith Lavoie / Focus Magazine
Instead of boosting the profitable bear viewing sector, the BC government is re-opening the grizzly hunt in three areas of the province… -
Ottawa boosts ship surveillance
Amy Smart / Times Colonist
Vancouver Island environmental groups warn that a federal plan to expand marine pollution surveillance won’t be effective against a major spill… -
Plywood ‘cards’ in the ocean help eco-groups map potential oil spills
Sandra McCulloch / Times Colonist
A tiny piece of plywood dropped into the sea off the Saanich Peninsula has been retrieved on Haida Gwaii… -
Hello from Haida Gwaii
Walking down their favourite beach, Sian and Allan were not thinking of oil spills until they found a bright yellow drift card and its message, this could be oil…
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Enbridge -1, Humpbacks – 0
One hundred years ago, British Columbia’s humpback whales had many reasons to fear humans…
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‘Drift card’ project shows potential impact of oil spill
Andrea Woo / The Globe and Mail
A small piece of plywood that washed up in Haida Gwaii shows the potentially massive reach of an oil spill in the Salish Sea, say environmental groups studying the risks… -
Drift cards plot extent of oil spill
Julie Bertrand / The Oceanside Star
The Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the Georgia Straight Alliance want to know what would happen if an oil tanker spilled in the Salish Sea… -
Oil spill simulation shows far-reaching results
By Colleen Kimmett / The Tyee
Oil spilled in Vancouver harbour could reach as far north as Haida Gwaii, according to results of a research project launched by two environmental groups last fall… -
B.C. Grizzly Hunt Bolstered By Spurious Science
Chris Genovali / The Huffington Post
Government policy makers and their bureaucratic minions who manage the grizzly hunt are not interested in rigorous science, but are keenly interested in maintaining the status quo… -
Overkill: Trophy hunting slams BC’s grizzly bears
Anna Taylor / The Ecologist
In BC, trophy hunting may be reducing grizzly bear populations. A new study by Raincoast finds evidence of serious ‘overkill’ – of which trophy hunting is a big contributor…
