Astounding scientists and conservationists, Nova Scotia has declared a coyote bounty. Guised as a “pelt incentive plan” the bounty would provide $20 per coyote. But coyote bounties don’t work to control the population…
Chris Genovali and Camilla Fox discuss the persecution of wolves on both sides of the US/Canada border, despite the use of their presence as icons of wilderness.
By Chris Genovali and Camilla Fox
Montana’s request to hunt endangered gray wolves has been turned down by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; not that the federal agency is opposed to wolf hunting, but because they believe the Montana proposal would not survive a legal challenge…
By Katherine Dedyna, Times Colonist October 7, 2010
Sunday morning’s GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon will raise a lot more than heart rates. Runners and their supporters are trying to raise $300,000 in conjunction with 22 charities. 18 local non-profits, from the Threshold Housing Society to the Raincoast Conservation Foundation…
For several months now, members of the Raincoast ‘Salmon Run’ team have been scattered in various places running the trails and roads of Calgary, California, Vancouver and Victoria as they train for the upcoming Victoria Marathon. For me, I’ve been hitting the logging roads of the Broughton Archipelago on the BC coast. Despite some drawbacks…
While sockeye are now entering some of the Fraser River watersheds in the millions, delivering nutrients and food to forests and wildlife, other runs of BC salmon -like chum and pink runs from the Broughton Archipelago up through the central and north coasts – are returning in extremely low numbers.
Calgary Herald By Margaret Munro, Postmedia News October 1, 2010 Students drop bottles with tracking devices inside into Hartley Bay in B.C. to help scientists learn more about ocean currents. Photograph by: Courtesy, Ian Jansma Jenelle Reece and her schoolmates had just finished tossing hundreds of beer bottles overboard when a humpback and her calf…
by Nick Garbutt, Geographical Magazine BC’s bear populations are intimately connected to the salmon on which they feed. But according to recent research, that connection goes all the way to the forest itself. Read more….. Geographic Magazine_Bears and Salmon.pdf
Race day is fast approaching. I’m inching closer and closer to running 21k (not a full marathon, but a half-marathon’s still not bad for someone who smoked a pack a day for 9 of his 27 years on earth). I’m feeling more and more like a “runner” by the day. Evidence to support this includes…
Raincoast’s Salmon Team is training hard for the Good Life Marathon.
Check out these images of Raincoast’s research vessel Achiever ‘at rest and at work’ recently taken by our Field Station manager Doug Brown. The ‘at rest’ shot is the boat tied up at the Raincoast Field Station.
By Caroline Fox
The first ever World Seabird Conference was held last week in Victoria (September 7-11, 2010). Over 800 participants from over 40 countries gathered…