The lands and waters of Canada’s Pacific coast support an astonishing diversity of marine birds. Millions breed here every year and millions more migrate, rest, overwinter and feed here. With industrial projects, such as oil tankers and pipelines, being proposed for the lands and waters of the Great Bear Rainforest, the marine birds of our…
Raincoast investigated juvenile salmon habitat use along BC’s central coast in order to identify primary migration routes. This is a year-one report. Juvenile Salmon Migration Mapping Report
By Stephen Hume Vancouver Sun January 23, 2008 Sea lice infestations affecting wild salmon smolts that migrate past fish farms have been found in yet another region of British Columbia’s remote coast. The problem poses potential headaches for the provincial government, since it suggests implications for commercial and recreational fisheries worth close to $1 billion…
By Caroline Fox Marine Bird Specialist, Marine Conservation Program Journal entry – November 2007: It’s our last night and tomorrow will be our final marine bird and mammal survey transect back to the mainland coast. I am helping keep watch aboard Achiever and it’s a night to remember: a starry sky above us, aurora borealis…
By Stephen Hume Vancouver Sun January 28, 2008 If British Columbia’s wild salmon runs were damaged by a sea lice crisis similar to those in Norway, Scotland and Ireland, who should be accountable?
Are you venturing into the Great Bear Rainforest and looking for a way to help out? Our Citizen Science Project lets you contribute to our research in this beautiful area! What is Citizen Science? Citizen science is a term used when scientific work is carried out using a network of volunteers, many of whom may…
By Jody Weir, Raincoast Conservation Foundation Prince Rupert Daily News, January 11, 2008 In response to the article titled “Scientists furious at Canada as project is ditched”1 (Prince Rupert Daily News, January 4th, 2008), it is important for readers to know that several scientists (myself included) are pleased, if not delighted, at the fact that…
by Alison Calestagne-Morelli, Field Station Co-ordinator and Chris Darimont, Research Scientist October 2007 We were startled by what sounded like raindrops too large for even the Great Bear Rainforest. Splish…. splosh!…. splash… followed by what sounded like a frantic churning of water. We ran to the beach to take a look.
Grizzly Bears are under pressure from hunting, habitat loss and declining food supply. In 2005, Raincoast and its partners at the Institute of Ocean Sciences and the University of Victoria, published a paper on an additional concern, the threat from global pollution. This paper documented the presence of Persistent Organic Pollutants (such as DDT and…