Archiving against erasure
There are many decisions to be made when building an archive. These decisions have often been made by individuals in…
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Ethics of Making the Location of Big Trees Accessible to the Public
Pender Island and big trees Pender Islands are located within the rapidly diminishing Coastal Douglas-fir biogeoclimatic zone. These islands, along…
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They’re everywhere: research finds polyester fibres throughout the Arctic Ocean
The Arctic has long proven to be a barometer of the health of our planet. This remote part of the…
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Interview: Big tree registries, BC’s logging practices and Nerdy about Nature
Last month, Raincoast released a video series demonstrating how to measure trees and nominate them to Big Tree Registries across…
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On hope
“I’M A MONSTER!!!” Riley yells triumphantly, ripping out an enormous daphne plant. Metallica plays in the background. Pulling Daphne, or…
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Advancing urgently needed tree protection policy in the Islands Trust
This summer, I had the privilege of working with Raincoast as their Tree Protection Policy Intern. The main focus of…
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Report: Tree Protection Bylaws in British Columbia
Tree bylaws protecting trees on private property exist in many municipalities throughout BC. The Gulf Islands, governed by the Islands…
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Quantifying lost habitat for Pacific salmon in the Lower Fraser
For perhaps the first time ever, researchers have mapped out the true extent of habitat loss for salmon in the…
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Revealing the true extent of lost salmon habitat in the Lower Fraser River
Nearly everyday, I walk by a monument memorializing Brewery Creek, a historical creek that meandered through the intersection of Kingsway…
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Reciprocity and Research – how Raincoast and the Wuikinuxv Nation collaborated on ecosystem-based fisheries management research
In this summer of drought and heat and fires, of coast-wide fisheries closures, and tense politics around the stewardship of…
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Looking ahead for each other – new study shows how the Wuikinuxv Nation shares sockeye with neighbouring grizzly bears
As salmon populations decline and images of skinny grizzly bears surface in coastal British Columbia, new research shows how the…
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Research: Fisheries management of the Wuikinuxv bear-salmon-human system guided by n̓àn̓akila and data
Guided by the Wuikinuxv principle of n̓àn̓akila (to keep an eye on something or someone; a protector or guardian), a…
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Disrupting the myth of the archive
An archive becomes such because individuals decide that certain pieces of knowledge and data should be collected and retained following…
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Up to 85 percent of historical salmon habitat lost in Lower Fraser region
For perhaps the first time ever, researchers have mapped out the true extent of habitat loss for salmon in the…
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Spatial alignment between grizzly bear genetic groups and Indigenous language families in coastal BC
In the landscape on the central coast of what is now known as British Columbia, genetic analyses have identified three…
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New research reveals spatial alignment between grizzly bear genetic groups and Indigenous language families in coastal British Columbia
People from Gitga’at, Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk), Wuikinuxv, Nuxalk, and Kitasoo/Xai’xais territories have long been connected culturally to grizzly bears. New research…
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Dr. Peter S. Ross to lead a new water contaminants program
Killer whales in the waters of BC are the most contaminated marine mammals in the world. This was demonstrated twenty…
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Internationally-recognized pollution expert to join Raincoast’s conservation team
Vancouver, BC – Raincoast Conservation Foundation’s commitment to conservation science in coastal British Columbia takes a big step forward today,…
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Meet Lauren, Raincoast’s new development coordinator
Lauren Duboisset-Broust started with Raincoast three months ago. We wanted to help you get to know her better through a…
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The Great Beach Cleanup
It’s been a couple of weeks since I returned from the Marine Debris Removal Initiative (MDRI) 2.0. The coast of…
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Behind the scenes of the multi-faceted Lower Fraser Salmon Conservation Program
Considering the importance of the Lower Fraser River ecologically, culturally, and economically, we developed our Lower Fraser Salmon Conservation Program…
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Lower Fraser River Salmon Recovery Brief
Over the last 150 plus years, salmon habitats in the Lower Fraser River and Estuary have undergone a vast transformation,…
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Webinar: Tree Protection in the Islands Trust
The Islands Trust is a unique form of local governance in British Columbia. Upon recognizing the ecological significance of the…
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Measuring trees – introducing our new “how-to” video series
We are thrilled to be releasing video tutorials on how to measure trees that we co-created with Nerdy About Nature!…
