Author: Raincoast Conservation Foundation

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Conservation Foundation | Raincoast research

Double your impact, safeguard biodiversity, get a tax receipt

2022-12-152022-12-15

This giving season, we are so happy to offer you two opportunities to double the impact of your donation!

All donations to both the Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure acquisition and our KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest initiative, will be matched …

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Career

Job opportunity: NoiseTracker Assistant Coordinator

2022-12-052022-12-06

Raincoast Conservation Foundation is looking for a part-time NoiseTracker Assistant Coordinator.

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Career

Employment opportunity: Quantitative Fisheries Ecologist (permanent full-time position)

2022-04-082022-06-02

Raincoast Conservation Foundation is looking to bring a quantitative ecologist, biologist, biostatistician or fisheries analyst onto our salmon team to advance the fisheries work we undertake in support of wild salmon recovery, coastal ecosystems and wildlife beneficiaries of salmon.

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In the News

Valeria Vargara on CBC On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko

2022-01-202022-03-15

Senior research scientist, Valeria Vergara with Raincoast Conservation Foundation knows a thing or two about baby belugas. She shares some new research and weighs in on the B.C. song bracket.

A school of red fish swim through very clear water, showing the sand beneath them.

Wild Salmon

The problem with hatcheries and hopes for wild salmon

2020-12-232020-12-22

So if hatcheries that fertilize eggs in buckets and raise fish in tanks only make the problem for wild salmon worse, how do we recover salmon? In a nutshell, we need to invest in habitat protection, habitat restoration, and far better decision-making at all levels of government to prioritize the resilience of species and ecosystems.

Future Forests webinar with Raincoast and Pender Islands Conservancy.

Gulf Islands

Join us for this webinar! Future Forests, land protection in Island Coastal Douglas-fir habitats

2020-12-142020-12-14

Learn about S,DÁYES Flycatcher Forest, a land acquisition initiative between Raincoast Conservation Foundation and Pender Islands Conservancy.. Learn about Coastal Douglas-fir forests on the Gulf Islands and why land acquisition is such an important strategy for protecting them.

Join us …

Chris Darimont on Pacific Rim College Radio

Raincoast research

Chris Darimont talks to Todd Howard on Pacific Rim College Radio about conservation science, forest ecology, and safeguarding wildlife

2020-07-242021-01-24

In this episode, Chris and Todd Howard discuss the Raincoast Conservation Foundation and his work as the Science Director. Chris helps to shed some light on British Columbia’s dwindling forests, the logging industry, and the limitations of commercial-scale tree planting, and more.

A sandy brown grizzly bear standing on water and rocks turns its head to look over its shoulder at the camera framed by a horizontal fallen log and a forest background

Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Help us purchase the Kitlope tenure

2020-01-232020-01-27

With the support of our First Nation partners, Raincoast now owns commercial trophy hunting rights in an area of over 33,000 square kilometers, across the Great Bear Rainforest. That’s an area larger than Vancouver Island. Our long term goal...

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Raincoast research

Riley Finn: The importance of the Lower Fraser River to salmon populations

2019-10-192019-10-21

Next week Riley Finn, Raincoast Research Associate and University of BC MSc student in the Conservation Decisions Lab, will be giving a @wildresearch Seminar Series Talk.

He will discuss the importance of the lower Fraser River to salmon populations, …

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Achiever

Excursions with Achiever

2019-08-172019-10-16

Our research vessel, Achiever, just returned from an amazing trip. Here’s an excerpt from Raincoast Education Associate, Nathaniel Glickman’s dispatch about the trip:

“Situated at the mouth of an unlogged watershed, Koeye camp is what I believe to be the …

Two men with their backs to the camera lean through tall green grass to hold a net submerged in a river next to a small white motor boat on a cloudy day. There are two women working on the boat behind the men and the next as well.

Conservation Foundation

Expertise in Salmon Conservation? We’re Hiring!

2019-07-312019-08-13

We’re hiring! If you have expertise in salmon conservation we are looking for a coordinator of our Lower Fraser Salmon Conservation program. Over the past four years, Raincoast has been actively engaging community members in the Lower Fraser ...

A black bear sits on a rocky beach with water and forest blurred in the background. The bear is sticking out their tongue a bit.

Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Success in the Kitlope Tenure!

2019-07-312019-08-02

We have great news to share! ⠀
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Thanks to your support we have reached our goal of $100,000 for the deposit on the Kitlope tenure – with one day to go! ⠀
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We actually exceeded our goal by …

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Conservation Foundation

Seeking Raincoasters

2019-07-272019-08-02

Beyond coastal wildlife we are always searching for more Raincoasters to join us in our conservation efforts. ⠀
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Monthly supporters help provide the financial foundation for our work. If there is an amount that works for you to help …

A white Spirit Bear stands to the right looking out to the left. It stands on a rocky bank next to a stream with forest in the background.

Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Spirit Bears in the Kitlope Tenure

2019-07-242019-08-02

The long-term goal of our Coastal Carnivores campaign is to end commercial trophy hunting throughout the Great Bear Rainforest. Although Spirit Bears, like the one pictured, are protected, the black bears that carry the recessive gene that produces the Spirit …

Three chinook salmon swimming in green water with a rocky bottom. Light is filtering in from above the water.

Conservation Foundation

Hatcheries Failing Chinook

2019-07-202019-09-11

More salmon hatcheries will NOT help killer whales or chinook…

In B.C. and Washington State, fishery managers, legislators, the sport fishing industry and even the whale watching industry have advocated for increased production of hatchery chinook to “save” the critically …

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Conservation Foundation

Returning to Court for the Killer Whales

2019-07-152019-07-22

We’re headed back to court for killer whales. ⠀
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Last week we announced that we are returning to court to challenge the federal government’s re-approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion with Living Oceans and Ecojustice.
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Why? …

Three grizzly bears - a mother and her cubs - trot across a river with a grassy beach behind them.

Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Cecil Paul and the Kitlope

2019-07-122019-07-22

“My people, the Xenaksiala, never touch grizzlies. We were taught that’s our friend in the wilderness.”⠀
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These are the words of Xenaksiala elder, Cecil Paul, who played an integral role in protecting the Kitlope from logging and other extractive …

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Conservation Foundation

Killer Whale Ice Cream

2019-07-102019-07-22

Killer Whale ice cream?! Yes please!! Killer Creamery just released their chocolate peanut butter, activated charcoal ice cream. They are donating all profits from sales to further our research and protection efforts of the Southern Resident Killer Whales! The ice …

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Conservation Foundation

Challenging the Trans Mountain Pipeline

2019-07-082019-07-22

BREAKING. Today Raincoast is returning to court with partners Ecojustice and Living to challenge the federal government’s re-approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

We contend that Cabinet failed to comply with its responsibility to protect critically endangered Southern …

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Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Alex in the Kitlope

2019-07-062019-07-22

“Over the next few days, we continued toward our destination – Kitlope Lake. We were taught about the history of the land along the way, stopping at old village sites and canneries, waterfalls, inlets and estuaries. We learned about the …

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Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Permanently End Trophy Hunting in the Kitlope Conservancy

2019-07-042019-07-22

Our goal is to permanently end commercial trophy hunting of all large carnivores in the Great Bear Rainforest.⠀
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As the only permanent solution to stopping the commercial trophy hunt appeared to be buying out hunting licenses, we began purchasing …

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Conservation Foundation

Thanks to Maple Leaf Adventures

2019-07-022019-07-22

2019 marks the second year of a decade-long $100,000 commitment from Maple Leaf Adventures to our research and conservation efforts on the BC Coast and, in particular, the Great Bear Rainforest. ⠀
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As we now embark on efforts to …

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Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Partnerships to end the trophy hunt

2019-06-292019-07-22

Working with our First Nations partners, our goal is to permanently end commercial trophy hunting of carnivores in the Great Bear Rainforest.⠀

Photo by Eric Sambol…

An underwater photo of a large green salmon. It's face is close to the camera with its body receding into the murky distance.

Fraser River

Lower Fraser River Salmon Conservation Program

2019-06-272019-07-22

The Fraser is one of the world’s great rivers. Historically it produced more salmon than any other place in North America. ⠀
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Given the importance of Fraser River salmon ecologically, culturally and economically, and the intensity of development pressures …

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