Time for action against eBay
Chris Genovali Executive Director, Raincoast May 2009 Last fall I visited numerous watersheds in the Great Bear Rainforest where an unnatural silence filled the air due to the lack of returning salmon.
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Take the Money and Run
by Chris Genovali Monday Magazine May 7, 2009 Re: “Take the Money and Run,” April 30-May 6 How interesting to read in Monday that Plutonic Power contributed almost $40,000 to the BC Liberals’ “war chest.”
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eBay targeted by animal advocacy groups Big Wildlife and Raincoast Conservation
By Barbara Kessler May 6th, 2009 Green Right Now Some wildlife advocates are incensed that eBay continues to allow postings for trophy hunts of lions, leopards, bears, wolves and other predators.
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Water diversions will hurt environment
By Chris Genovali, Paul Paquet and Misty MacDuffee Victoria Times Colonist May 3, 2009 The media have recently published many opinion pieces and news articles promoting independent power projects (IPPs) as crucial to solving climate change.
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IPPs: green or greenwash?
Chilliwack Progress, May 05, 2009 The media have recently published many opinion pieces and news articles promoting independent power projects (IPPs) as crucial to solving climate change. One of the latest is David Field’s “Advantages of river power” (Chilliwack Progress – April 30).
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Conservation groups say eBay should ban trophy hunt sales
by Elinor Mills May 1, 2009 http://news.cnet.com Conservation groups want eBay to ban auctions where people pay thousands of dollars to trophy hunters to kill leopards, lions, bears and other predators.
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Trophy-hunt packages will remain on eBay
Conservationists vow to continue campaign to stop postings of hunts Judith Lavoie Times-Colonist May 2, 2009 eBay is not ready to ban sales of trophy hunts on its popular buy-and-sell website, despite pressure from environmental groups. The Raincoast Conservation Foundation, based on Vancouver Island, has been a leader of the campaign to stop eBay
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Oil sands and seabirds don’t mix
Chris Genovali Island Tides April 9, 2009 I’m on my back on the aft deck of Raincoast’s research vessel. My repose is involuntary as we ply the lumpy waters of Haida Gwaii’s west coast. Not one prone to sea-sickness, I nevertheless feel like my head is virtually nailed down, a result of the interminable chop.
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Ocean World
Join Raincoast and the Victoria Children’s choir on this musical journey into a whale’s ocean world Friday, May 8 7:00 pm Saturday, May 9 7:00 pm Alex Goolden Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Avenue, Victoria BC Tickets: $15.00 at Long & McQuade, Ivy’s Bookshop, Larsen Music, Cadboro Bay Book Co. For more…
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Grizzly bear hunt has no place in modern society
Chris Genovali Georgia Strait March 31, 2009 I went “undercover” once with a European television producer to the workshop of a taxidermist-cum-trophy hunter on Vancouver Island. The producer and I had just spent
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Sea lice from fish farms threaten Fraser River sockeye: biologist
Pieta Woolley Georgia Strait March 23, 2009 Sea lice from fish farms may be a greater threat to Fraser River sockeye salmon stocks that conservationists previously thought.
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GROWLS event packs Phoenix Auditorium
By Janina Stajic Gabriola Sounder March 24 2009 On Thursday, March 19th Gabriolan’s packed the Haven’s Phoenix auditorium to hear Dr. Chris Darimont of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, speak about B.C’s Great Bear Rainforest.