Author: Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Rain Wolf, by Cristina Mittermeier

2018-12-142018-12-18

This 30×45 inch aluminum fine art print is up for auction to raise funds for our Safeguard Coastal Carnivores campaign to permanently end commercial trophy hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest.

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Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

One Shot for Coastal Carnivores auction ending on Friday

2018-12-122018-12-18

This image is 40”x60” printed on fine art archival fine art paper matted and framed. It is up for auction to raise funds for our Safeguard Coastal Carnivores campaign to permanently end commercial trophy hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest.…

Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

With just weeks left to buy the Nadeea trophy hunting tenure, an anonymous donor has offered matching funds

2018-12-112018-12-18

With this matching funding in place, we only need to raise another $26,609 in 10 days, and we will have reached our goal and with it a permanent end to commercial trophy hunting in the Nadeea tenure and 2,350 square kilometers of the Great Bear Rainforest...

Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Join us in Whistler tonight, Saturday December 8th: One Shot for Coastal Carnivores

2018-12-082018-12-18

Join us in Whistler tonight, Saturday December 8th, for the opening night of One Shot for Coastal Carnivores Exhibit at the @AudainArtMuseum and help us bring a permanent end to commercial trophy hunting in the Nadeea tenure of the Great …

Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Join us in Whistler for the next One Shot for Coastal Carnivores Exhibit

2018-11-292018-12-18

Will you be joining us in Whistler for the next One Shot for Coastal Carnivores Exhibit?
Saturday, December 8th: 7-930pm at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, BC.
Presented by Raincoast Conservation Foundation and Grizzly Bear Foundation and sponsored by …

On the coast

Humpback whales sighting

2018-09-302019-01-07

Came across humpback whales on the transit on Achiever to...

Outdoor life

Great view from Pender Island

2018-08-242018-12-24

Great view from Pender Island looking out over the other Gulf Islands.

Save the Great Bears

Trophy hunting is closed

2016-09-092019-01-07

At Vancouver (YVR) heading up to Great Bear Rainforest for expedition on Raincoast conservation research vessel Achiever. Awesome to see "Trophy hunting is closed" sign...

Save the Great Bears

A conservation solution to the trophy hunt

2016-09-032019-01-07

This week the trophy hunt opens across British Columbia including the Great Bear Rainforest despite a ban by Coastal First Nations...

On the coast

Pacific white-sided dolphin says “Hello” to Achiever

2016-08-292019-01-07

This photograph was taken from our research vessel Achiever by Captain Nicholas Sinclair. This Pacific white-sided dolphin approached with a whole pod...

On the coast

The relationship between bears, salmon and people in the Great Bear Rainforest

2016-08-252019-01-07

With our First Nations hosts and partners we monitor the relationship between bears, salmon and people in the Great Bear Rainforest. This is conservation science...

On the coast

Forage fish: the little things matter

2016-08-232019-01-07

Forage fish - like this sand lance - are an integral piece of the Salish Sea ecosystem. Without them, marine birds, orca, seals and the ecosystem as a whole would not exist...

Raincoast research

We work as guests of local First Nations

2016-08-042019-01-07

We are fortunate to work in many very beautiful places as guests of local First Nations. Our mission is to protect the land, water and...

Events

Our latest book ‘At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast’

2016-07-292019-01-07

Our wildlife conservation work on the British Columbia coast includes birds like this sandpiper. We conducted extensive surveys over five years of marine mammal and marine bird distribution...

On the coast

Thank you Nimmo Bay Resort

2016-07-272019-01-07

As most enjoy summer holidays we want to thank some of our supporters like Nimmo Bay Resort...

Events

The ultimate cause of caribou decline in Alberta

2016-07-262019-01-07

Habitat loss and disturbance is the ultimate cause of caribou decline in Alberta. They need forests, not fences and wolf culls are not the solution...

Events

Groundswell tour with Woodshed Films

2016-07-222019-01-07

Our friends at Patagonia let our people go surfing and surf California for the Groundswell tour with Woodshed Films. Tomorrow they're helping us to 'Save The Whales'...

Marine mammals

The Southern Resident killer whale orca

2016-07-212019-01-07

The Southern Resident killer whale orca blackfish need immediate efforts to support their recovery. Take a look at our new video...

Raincoast research

Characterizing habitat at our Fraser River sites

2016-07-142019-01-07

"165" Lia (@felinethropist) calls out the shoot density of sedges / vegetation cover in a 25cm by 25cm quadrant - characterizing habitat at our Fraser Salmon Project...

Raincoast research

Conducting habitat surveys

2016-07-142019-01-07

Conducting habitat surveys to identify their characteristics in the Fraser River estuary, the Fraser Salmon Project surveys and catalogs the physical structure of banks...

Raincoast research

This is what we just found

2016-07-122019-01-07

Last set: 2 sticklebacks, 16 juvenile sticklebacks, 4 sandlance, 49 juvenile sandlance, 117 juvenile shiner surf perch, 1 plainfin midshipman, 1 kelp perch, 16 shiner surf perch, 2 unidentifiable larval fish - This is what we just found.

Raincoast research

This is a juvenile sand lance – a forage fish

2016-07-122019-01-07

This is a juvenile sand lance - a forage fish and a key component of the Salish Sea ecosystem...

Raincoast research

Understanding the relationship between bears, salmon and people

2016-06-242019-01-07

We are working to understand the relationship of bears, salmon and people in the Great Bear Rainforest and the territories of our hosts and partner Coastal First Nations...

Salmon Carnivore Project

Raincoasts’ non-invasive bear research

2016-06-062019-01-07

"Let's see now, what have we here? Caution please do not disturb, mmm-hmm research project, yep, on .... BEARS!?". Reading this sign was likely the only stressful part of this bear's participation...

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