When turkey vultures attack
Raincoast has been conducting whale and vessel monitoring from the Oaks Bluff lookout for a couple of months now. While…
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Learning from the land and each other
Land Healing Stewards (LHS) is Raincoast’s forest education initiative that blends place-based learning and habitat restoration, with a particular focus…
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Goodness Grey-cious!
It was a quiet Wednesday, both literally and figuratively. Only a handful of vessels were moving through our survey area…
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To restore salmon habitat, one must act like the beaver
The feeling of a lopper slicing through a branch might just be one of the most satisfying feelings in the…
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What our estuary salmon fieldwork crews are up to
Despite the familiarity with the start of the field season, there is always a sense of excitement and anticipation in…
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An afternoon as ecologists in Mundy Park
When you spend time in nature, do you find yourself making observations, asking questions, and wondering how you might go…
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Junior researchers in the temperate rainforest
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a forest conservation scientist? For a small group of keen youth…
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“Smile, you’re on a wildlife camera!” on Haíɫzaqv territory
In 2023, in partnership with the Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department (HIRMD) and Raincoast Conservation Foundation, the Raincoast Applied Conservation…
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Supporting youth through experiential learning in nature
Raincoast’s Salish Sea Emerging Stewards is an environmental education program that delivers immersive, hands-on learning on-land and at-sea, and we…
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Engaging the next generation of land healing stewards
This year, Raincoast’s Salish Sea Emerging Stewards and Forest Conservation programs collaboratively launched the multi-year Land Healing Stewards Initiative. This…
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We’re using drones to find salmon cooling centres
We crane our necks and squint our eyes as the drone takes off with a poof of dust. Our stress…
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Introducing the Land Healing Stewards Initiative
As Raincoast’s on-the-ground work, community engagement, and collaborations are key to our research and conservation successes, the Forest Conservation Program…
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Raincoast presents at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
Every year, the University of Oregon’s School of Law hosts the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon to…
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Scientists are delivering new insights into the source, fate, and effects of plastics and microplastics in Canada
Since 2017, Canada has pursued an ambitious agenda to reduce plastic waste through its Ocean Plastics Charter1, its national Zero…
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Final field days of 2024
In late November 2024, I had my first opportunity to canoe to one of our wildlife camera sites. This wildlife…
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Sailing and learning in the Salish Sea
Another October, another successful sailing trip aboard the SV Achiever is in the books for the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards…
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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…
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Studying the impacts of drought on salmon habitat in the Nicola watershed
The first time I drove over the Coquihalla from the coast to the interior I was struck by how quickly…
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Restoring marsh habitat in the Fraser River Estuary
When I tell friends and family I study and work in the field of salmon conservation, I assume their perception…
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Wildfire, watersheds, and landscape change
In regions across Canada, forests and fire co-evolved alongside each other over millennia. In many cases, this coevolution involved Indigenous…
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Using drones to study killer whale health
Our photogrammetry research project, ongoing for over fifteen years, involves taking bird’s eye photos of known whales, which are later…
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Exploring the Salish Sea with youth aboard Achiever
It’s a grey blustery April day in Nanaimo as captain Xander Oldaker, mate John Kelsey and I welcome nine youth…
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Learning from the two lives of grad school
For the past year and a half, I have been completing grad school with Raincoast’s Applied Conservation Science Lab, investigating…
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Learning to listen: Engaging the Sunshine Coast community on underwater noise
There was a mix of anticipation and curiosity in the air as people filed into the Chapman Creek Hatchery Education…
