The inertia of broken paradigms
In fisheries management, each population has what’s called a “maximum sustainable yield.”
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BC needs to stand up to the federal government on salmon issues
Will the province stand by as the federal government permits the destruction of vital salmon habitat in BC?
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Mapping commercial trophy hunting tenures in the Great Bear Rainforest
We are currently raising funds to purchase the Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure, which would effectively provide protection from commercial trophy hunting to over 60 species in an area of 18,239 km2. The Southern Tenure covers over a quarter of the Great Bear Rainforest. BC’s tenure system was set up in the mid 1900s to…
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Wolf Stories: Reflections on science, ethics, and moral practice (Part 1)
Drs. Michael Paul Nelson, John A. Vucetich, and Joseph Bump share their insights on ethics and moral practice in conservation.
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Lessons from Wolf School and the launch of our new series
When I watched the first season of Wolf School as a graduate student in 2020, I never imagined I would be hosting its second season nearly three years later. Now, as director of Raincoast’s Wolf Conservation Program, it’s a dream come true to have the opportunity to engage with experts and provide accessible educational programming…
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The not-so-silent world: monitoring underwater noise using non invasive techniques
Celebrating the application of Passive Acoustic Monitoring around the world.
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New patches support our work to stop trophy hunting
We have raised 52% of our $1.92 million goal to stop commercial trophy hunting in the Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure. Being our longest running campaign to date, we’ve already purchased five tenures, with the support of our First Nations partners, protecting coastal carnivores in over 38,000 km2 of the Great Bear Rainforest. To get…
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Job posting: Summer Stewardship Program Assistant
Applications close June 19, 2023.
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Reach out to your MLA about the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has been given federal approval to double the size of its shipping terminal in the heart of the Fraser River Estuary. The 370 conditions included in the federal approval of the project are insufficient in many places, and the specific conditions that relate to the terminal footprint and underwater shipping…
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The story of Coastal Douglas-fir forests: Classifying place
In this article, Del Meidinger who led the development of the BEC system in British Columbia and was responsible for technical quality and standardization of methods and concepts for the BEC program, provides a simple explanation of the BEC system.
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Job posting: Salmon restoration Conservation Technician
Applications close June 2, 2023.
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We’re legally challenging the federal government’s approval of Roberts Bank Terminal 2
The Canadian government’s approval of Roberts Bank Terminal 2 violates federal law under the Species at Risk Act.
