Watershed partnerships gather momentum
Our Healthy Waters team has visited watersheds around BC: from Whistler, to Vancouver Island, the Nicola River Valley, and the Sunshine Coast.
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Always look for the helpers
It’s been an incredible year, and we have a lot of community to thank for it.
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Place-based knowledge enriches our understanding of biodiversity change
A recent study of bird communities at Yáláƛi (Goose Island Archipelago) examines how bird communities have changed since 1948, and uses Heiltsuk Knowledge to figure out why.
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Online auction goes live: give for killer whales
Indulge in incredible prize packs with every dollar going towards Southern Resident killer whale protection and recovery.
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Take action: Urge Canada to regulate salmon-killing pollutant, 6PPD
Canada’s draft Priorities Plan is open for public comment until midnight tonight. Take action now. For years it was a mystery – why were coho salmon dying in large numbers as they returned through urban areas on their way to spawn? The phenomenon, observed for decades, became known as “urban run-off mortality syndrome”. Painstaking research…
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Sailing and learning in the Salish Sea
The Special Bird Service recently joined the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program aboard Achiever.
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Hydrophone diaries: eavesdropping on the soundscapes of the Salish Sea
Hosting listening stations comes with trials and tribulations.
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Mail is down, but our conservation work continues
Keep conservation going: Easy ways to give during the Canada Post Strike.
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Dr. Erin Wall presents on humpback whale songs in Perth
Dr. Erin Wall is at the Perth conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals where she is singing the praise of humpback whale song.
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A memorable evening at the 2024 Raincoast Ocean Science Awards
Filled with warmth, camaraderie, and engaging conversations, the Ocean Awards was an inspiring celebration of science excellence and conservation achievement.
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What forests mean to coastal wildlife
We know that old-growth forests provide many important services to coastal species, but when these environments are changed, how does the age, diversity, and structure of these forests influence wildlife communities? Over the past 14 months, a network of wildlife cameras in Heiltsuk Territory has been collecting images of coastal species so that managers and…
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Creekwalking in Heiltsuk Territory
This past fall, Raincoast’s Wild Salmon team and technicians from the Reynolds Lab at Simon Fraser University conducted fieldwork for a long-term chum and pink salmon spawner monitoring project in Heiltsuk Territory. Started in 2007, the project monitors spawning populations in 27 small streams throughout the territory, and the data is used to inform fisheries…
