Southern Resident killer whales not getting enough to eat since 2018
The endangered Southern Resident killer whale population isn’t getting enough to eat, and hasn’t been since 2018, a new study,…
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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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From laundry to the ocean: fixing the microplastics problem in clothes
Plastic pollution might be on everyone’s mind these days, with discarded fishing nets, beverage cups, bottles, straws and grocery bags…
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Guide government action for Southern Resident killer whale recovery before Feb 19
The federal government is accepting your input, through a survey, for this year’s recovery and threat reduction measures for endangered…
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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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The story of Coastal Douglas-fir forests: The biodiversity potential of privately-owned land
Reports of the immediate actions required to prevent further global warming and biodiversity loss are becoming increasingly frequent. One of…
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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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Fly with care: avoiding disturbance when using drones to study cetaceans
Drones have been widely used in the last decade for a host of wildlife studies. They’ve been particularly helpful to…
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Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 3: Mapping the watershed
Multiple practitioners working under the umbrella of the Maxwell Creek Watershed Project (MCWP or “the Project”) have contributed to this…
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Nearly 40 years of predator reduction efforts have not enhanced moose harvests, study says
Since 1994, Alaska Intensive Management (IM) law effectively has mandated predator reductions to achieve higher sustained yield for human harvest…
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New adventures, old relationships
After a long journey from Vancouver, my colleague Persia Khan and I finally arrive in Port Hardy to meet Achiever….
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The story of Coastal Douglas-fir forests: All about bats
According to bat biologist Susan Dulc, if you have bats living in your attic or yard you should consider yourself…
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Science and ethics of wolf conservation
Spring 2022 marked the start of our pilot year studying wolves on BC’s south coast. With the support of the…
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Research, policy, and governance for Fraser River salmon
The Fraser River Estuary supports Canada’s largest runs of Pacific salmon, along with hundreds of other species, many of which…
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We are working towards ending commercial trophy hunting in the Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure
One of our longest running projects at Raincoast has been our Safeguarding Coastal Carnivores campaign, which seeks to stop commercial…
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Working toward healthy waters for people, salmon, and whales
The value of our Healthy Waters Program became evident this past fall when melting snowpack and an atmospheric river delivered…
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SV Achiever’s busiest year yet
When Achiever was purchased by us in 2003, our goal was to undertake several years of cetacean research that could…
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Recovery efforts for endangered killer whales
2022 marked the fourth year of collaborative efforts by NGOs, First Nations, stakeholders, and the federal government to implement recovery…
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Protecting threatened forest ecosystems in BC
One of the primary focuses of the Forest Conservation Program in 2022 has been the permanent protection of KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher…
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The ocean we share
Our annual report, Tracking Raincoast into 2023 is now out! Below, find the opening letter authored by two of our…
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Whale conservation and recovery: our plans for 2023
Raincoast’s new Cetacean Conservation Research Program is premised on the conviction that solutions to the threats facing at-risk species must…
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We need to understand the extent to which floods further degrade fish habitat
A version of this article was published by Vancouver Sun on December 8, 2022. In November 2021, we viewed with…
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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…
