Raincoast in the news, 2025
Check out our 2025 news media hits.
Government failure to recommend emergency order to protect endangered orcas prompts legal challenge from conservation groups
Georgia Strait Alliance
2025 01 28
…The groups contend that after months of urging government to use the tools available under SARA to protect the Southern Residents, they had no choice but to turn to the courts for action. This
‘The whales are in crisis’: two federal ministers sued over delay in protecting B.C.’s orcas
The Narwhal
Ainslie Cruickshank
2025 01 28
…The conservation groups are now asking the Federal Court to order the ministers to recommend cabinet issue an emergency order under the Species At Risk Act or declare the ministers’ delay to be
Maureen Vo chats about her winding career route and why she has become passionate about freediving
Pink Sheep Design
Ryan Elizabeth Cope
2025 01 27 …
Myth-Busting and the Great Gray Wolf
Mountain Journal
Benjamin Alva Polley
2025 01 26
…In June 1991, Canadian researchers led by wildlife biologist Paul Paquet, captured a female wolf named Pluie — “rain” in French — near Kananaskis Country, Alberta. Fitted with a radio collar and
A geometric morphometric approach for detecting different reproductive stages of a free-ranging killer whale Orcinus orca population
Scientific Reports
Chloe V. Robinson and Brittany C. Visona-Kelly
2025 01 25
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Kate Field and Chris Darimont publish new research in the Canadian Journal of Zoology
UVIC
Kate Field and Chris Darimont
2025 01 22
…A new study led by University of Victoria Geography researcher Kate Field and professor Chris Darimont, in collaboration with the Nuxalk Nation and BC Parks, suggests that grizzly bears visiting ecotourism
’A plan for a plan?’ internal critics question Canada’s ocean noise strategy
Salmon Arm Observer
Rochelle Baker
2025 01 17
…Key Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) staff were unimpressed with the proposed framework to address the surging problem of noise pollution, internal communications obtained by Canada’s National Observer suggest.
National Geographic Explorers Drive Change Through Collaborative Grant Program
National Geographic
2025 01 15 …
Canadian regulators lag behind U.S. after harmful ‘forever chemicals’ found in fertilizer, say experts
Business Intelligence for B.C.
Stefan Labbé
2025 01 15
…The Canadian federal government is in the process of developing a chemical management plan for PFAS. A July 2024 updated draft state of PFAS in Canada found contamination from “forever chemicals”
Alone in her grief – we’ll speak with an orca researcher about the southern resident killer whale who is carrying a dead calf
CBC Listen
Gregor Craigie
2025 01 15 …
Colorado to capture 15 B.C. wolves to reintroduce the population to the state
Yahoo News
CBC
2025 01 14
…Chelsea Greer, the director of the wolf conservation program at the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, says B.C. offering up wolves from its wilderness is full of unknowns.
“It’s all incredibly stressful and raises some welfare
Eco-tourism did not make these B.C. grizzly bears more prone to human conflict, study finds
Business Intelligence for B.C.
Stefan Labbé
2025 01 14
…But move 40 kilometres downstream and you start running into a number of settlements. The situation has led to a collision between humans and grizzlies in a conflict that outranks any
Federal Court upholds RBT2 Megaport expansion, in a setback to legal protection for species at risk
Georgia Strait Alliance
2025 01 13
…Cabinet approved the project despite accepting the conclusion of the independent environmental assessment that the project would have significant adverse effects on the Southern Residents and their main prey source, Chinook salmon.
The Vancouver
This Vancouver megaport expansion could harm killer whales. Approving it still didn’t breach endangered species law, court says
The Narwhal
Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
2025 01 13
…“Even since this case was filed and was heard the population has declined further,” Dyna Tuytel, a lawyer with the environmental law charity Ecojustice, said. “This is a really urgent and critical
Federal Court rejects environmentalists’ bid to halt B.C. port expansion
The Canadian Press
Darryl Greer
2025 01 13
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Who Watches the Watchers?
bioGraphic
Larry Pynn
2025 01 11
…Suzie Hall heard the killer whales before she saw them. Listening through headphones from OrcaLab, an independent research station on Hanson Island in southern British Columbia, Hall could pick out the cetaceans’ distinctive calls
This Might Be the Coolest Alaska Cruise to Take in 2025
Travel Leisure
Kevin West
2025 01 04
…It was the boat that got me. Swell, run by Maple Leaf Adventures out of Victoria, British Columbia, was built in 1912 as a wooden-hulled tugboat. Refitted in 2004, it now operates as
Researchers find famous orca mother carrying body of another dead calf
Canada’s National Observer
Brieanna Charlebois
2025 01 03
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In deep mourning, famous orca mom drapes her dead calf over her head, again: experts
Vancouver Sun
Brieanna Charlebois
2025 01 02
…Hanson said researchers are concerned about Tahlequah’s welfare as she continues to carry the calf’s body, draped over the top of her head.
“That essentially results in a lot more drag, and so
Grieving orca mother Tahlequah carries dead baby for the second time
CTV News
Mina Kerr-Lazenby
2025 01 02
…As was the case with the loss of her first daughter, Tahlequah has been seen carrying the body of her deceased second daughter with her. In 2018, the mother of four carried the
Comment: Life for southern resident killer whales not getting better
Times Colonist
Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee
2025 01 02 …
Offering a dose of healing, curious beluga whales frolic in a warming Hudson Bay
AP News
Seth Borenstein
2024 10 03 …