Introducing the British Columbia Big Tree Project map
The Pender Islands Big Tree Registry (PIBTR or “the registry”), established and managed by Raincoast Conservation Foundation, is one of…
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Your voice is needed now to stop Roberts Bank Terminal 2
The clock is ticking for the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Honourable Steven Guilbeault, to decide whether to…
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Land protection in some of Canada’s most threatened terrestrial habitats
Raincoast established the Forest Conservation Program (formerly known as the Gulf Islands Forest Project) in 2019 with the intention of…
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Meet Allison Dennert, Raincoast’s new Quantitative Salmon Ecologist
Allison Dennert has joined our Wild Salmon Program team as a Quantitative Salmon Ecologist. She will conduct scientific research and…
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We did it! KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest has been protected!
In just over 12 months, Raincoast and the Pender Islands Conservancy raised $2.18 million to purchase and permanently protect the…
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Meet Auston Chhor, Raincoast’s new Wild Salmon Governance and Policy Analyst
Auston Chhor has joined our growing Wild Salmon Program team as a Governance and Policy Analyst. He will focus on…
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A window into the COP 15 Biodiversity Summit
As the abundance of animal populations plummets globally, 19,000 representatives from 195 countries (but not the United States or Vatican…
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Over $2 million has been raised to protect KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest
It has been less than a year since we launched our campaign to permanently protect KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest and together…
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All we want for the holidays is a belted kingfisher in a fir tree!
Near the top of the earthen slope that descends to the shoreline of KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest, overlooking the viridian waters…
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This giving season, Raincoast offers you two opportunities to double the impact of your donations!
To celebrate the end of the year, we are so happy to be able to offer matching campaigns on two…
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Help us design, build, and deploy our new mobile lab
Last month, many of our supporters voted for us in Land Rover’s Defender Series Award when we were trying to…
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The story behind our campaign to protect KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest
When Raincoast and the Pender Islands Conservancy made the decision to purchase what is now known as KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest,…
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Celebrating the success of the first annual EcoFair
After a record-breaking 100-day drought in the Salish Sea region, the morning of October 22nd dawned to the welcome sound…
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Vote to help Raincoast win a Land Rover to launch our mobile lab, Tracker
Last year, we launched our Healthy Waters Program to provide a much-needed community-oriented water pollution monitoring capacity, and bring insight…
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Entering the homestretch of the KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest fundraising campaign
Over the past ten months, Raincoast and the Pender Islands Conservancy have raised $1,445,656.46 to protect this special place and…
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KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest fundraising update
Over the past eight months, Raincoast and the Pender Islands Conservancy have been hard at work to raise the $2.1…
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An ethical approach to wolf photography
Photography is a key tool in our communication and, as with our scientific research, we have an extensive ethics protocol…
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Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 1: Project Impetus
Registered environmental charity, Transition Salt Spring has partnered with experts and organizations from across the Coastal Douglas-fir biogeoclimatic zone, including…
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KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest matching campaign update
It has been three months since Raincoast and the Pender Islands Conservancy launched a $200,000 matching campaign toward our latest…
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The cull of the wild: management for industry, not wolves
The government of British Columbia’s controversial wolf cull program, which has killed 1,709 wolves since initiated in 2015, has been…
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With just one week left to double the impact of donations made to the protection of KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest, Islands Trust Conservancy has shown their support
On the first day of spring 2022, Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the Pender Islands Conservancy announced a matching campaign initiated…
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We are offering gifts with donations to show our gratitude
On March 21, the first day of spring, with the Pender Conservancy and Raincoast launched a $100,000 matching campaign toward…
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Local businesses and entrepreneurs are helping advance the KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest protection campaign
On March 15th, 2022 Raincoast and our partners at the Pender Islands Conservancy launched a $100,000 matching campaign, made possible…
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Developing a management plan for S,DÁYES Flycatcher Forest
Last year, Raincoast and the Conservancy and Raincoast purchased a 13-acre property on S,DÁYES or Pender Island. Now, we are…
