In anticipation of the first provincial management plan for cougars, Raincoast Conservation Foundation released the report, British Columbia’s Neglected Carnivore: a conservation assessment and conservation planning guide for Cougars.
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
January 19, 2011
Trophy hunting and habitat loss are putting B.C.’s cougar population at risk and provincial policies do not adequately protect the big cats, says a new report by three scientists from the Raincoast Conservation Foundation…
In anticipation of a provincial management plan for cougars, Raincoast released the report on our neglected carnivore:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 17, 2011
VANCOUVER – Environmental groups vowed today to fight DFO’s appeal of a decisive and precedent-setting Federal Court ruling that declared that DFO must protect critical habitat of killer whales…
A conservation assessment and conservation planning guide for cougars.
Raincoast and three other BC ENGO’s have critiqued the proposal by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to certify BC’s commercial pink salmon fishery as sustainable.
The presence of antibodies for canine parvovirus and distemper virus in Rocky Mtn wolves. Published in Journal of Wildlife Diseases
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist January 6, 2011
Underweight bear cubs from all over the Island are being taken to the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre in greater numbers than ever before…
As last year’s returning wild Pacific salmon headed upstream, scientists spawned a thought-provoking proposal about how taking less salmon might bring more benefits to both ecosystems and economies…
December 2010 By Chris Darimont, Director of Science for Raincoast This Holiday Season, I would like to share the introduction published in Tracking Raincoast into 2011. From my family to yours, I wish you all the best of 2011 and ask you to join me in honoring our precious coast. The future of coastal British…
Raincoast now has a purchase agreement for a second commercial hunting territory in the Great Bear Rainforest, specifically in the home of the spirit bear…
CounterPunch
Christmas Weekend Edition December 24-26, 2010
By Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee
Recently, British Columbia MP (Member of Parliament) Gary Lunn asserted that professionals should be left to decide on oil tanker routes for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project…