Alex Harris

Aerial view of the ocean on the rocks and grasses and forest of the Gulf Islands.

Career

Policy and Communications Analyst intern

2022-05-052022-06-02

Raincoast Conservation Foundation is seeking a summer student to assist in social policy research, communications, and website development. The position is suited to someone who has an interest in conservation and communications, as well as diversity, equity and inclusion policies. …

Fraser River

Year five in the Fraser River Estuary

2020-12-272021-01-04

Despite the challenges of COVID-19, our research and restoration efforts in the Fraser River Estuary continued through 2020.

Gulf Islands

The S,DÁYES Flycatcher Forest

2020-12-132020-12-21

Raincoast and Pender Islands Conservancy are now raising funds to purchase the S’DÁYES Flycatcher Forest.

A small brown bird with a sharp black beak sits among the branches in a forest on Pender Island

Gulf Islands

Today is Giving Tuesday

2020-12-012020-12-03

We are one week into the fundraising campaign for the S,DÁYES Flycatcher Forest.

Fraser River

Stop Terminal 2 expansion

2020-11-302020-12-03

Stop Terminal 2 expansion and protect migratory birds.

A green forest filled with Doughlas-fir, arbutus and cedar trees with the ocean visible near the horizon.

Gulf Islands

New campaign to purchase at North Pender Island

2020-11-242020-12-02

Raincoast is launching a new campaign to protect Douglas-fir, arbutus and cedar trees on Pender.

Achiever, sailboat research vessel is seen with white sail unfurled in blue water under bright blue skies, with a youth in winter gear visible partially in the foreground.

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Youth education during COVID

2020-10-302020-11-16

Youth education looks different during COVID.

Salish Sea Youth Steward Ryder Wise seated on an arbutus branch by the ocean in a speaking pose

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Fill a survey and help us develop online curriculum

2020-10-032020-12-02

With the pilot Coastal Insights online learning series under our belt, we are now seeking to develop a new series.

A scientist in a checked shirt and pale pink hat, carrying a backpack looks up at the trees inside the forest with a measuring device.

Gulf Islands

Gulf Islands Forest Project

2020-09-032020-09-04

Raincoast’s Gulf Islands Forest Project is focused on addressing biodiversity loss, climate change and other human caused impacts on Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) habitats.

Black bear on all fours walks on rocks beside water with blurred forest background

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Thanks to everyone who made our first season of Coastal Insight a success

2020-07-212020-07-28

We just wrapped up our 11th episode of Coastal Insights, a live and interactive online learning program.

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Wildlife Photography: Stories, Conservation, and Ethics S1 E10

2020-07-082020-09-04

Learn about the stories behind the nature and wildlife photographs that help drive conservation.

A beautiful wet grizzly bear looks out at the camera face above green water

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Raincoast presents webinar on ethical wildlife photography

2020-07-022020-07-14

Next week’s Coastal Insights Education program is focused on ethical wildlife photography

Beautiful brown grizzly bear sleeping with its chin down in the Great Bear Rainforest

Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Protecting the Kitlope

2020-06-162020-08-25

We are working to protect British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest from commercial trophy hunting.

Fraser River

Reject Terminal 2 expansion

2020-05-272020-09-05

The Port of Vancouver is proposing to almost double the size of their existing terminal, Deltaport Terminal, in the Fraser Estuary.

Cowichan Nation ceremonial dancer among people watching and misty covered mountain in the background

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Raincoast’s program tomorrow with Joe Akerman

2020-05-192020-06-16

Our live and interactive Coastal Insights educational episode about how bears connect land and sea had over 80 participants.

Two hands, one with bracelets on wrist of a white person holds up a rectangular trasn[arent box with a little bit of water and a juvenile salmon in it

Fraser River

Immediate success for salmon recovery at Steveston Jetty

2020-04-292020-09-06

The Steveston Jetty is only one of the many structures dividing the Fraser estuary, altering the movement of salmon, freshwater, and fine sediments to Sturgeon and Roberts Banks.

An older person's hands hold an intertidal creature while a youth touches it with one finger

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

Raincoast’s Emerging Stewards program

2020-03-122020-03-22

Raincoast’s Emerging Stewards program is designed to help inspire a new generation of conservation leaders in the Salish Sea. Recently...

tall trees rising into the blue sky with their tops creating a canopy in the forest

Gulf Islands

Gulf Islands Forest Project

2020-02-202020-03-15

We launched the Gulf Islands Forest Project to characterize forest health, identify measures to protect forest habitat and promote ecosystem resilience at a time of rapid climate change. By most standards...

A researcher's two hands hold up a plastic bag with salmon in the foreground, while behind marsh, water, and blue sky stretches out.

Fraser River

Ambitious habitat restoration project

2020-02-062020-02-13

In March of 2019, we began phase one of an ambitious habitat restoration project in the Fraser River Estuary. We created three 50m breaches in the Steveston Jetty...

Marine mammals

Humpback

2019-12-302020-01-08

Humpback whale.

Grizzly bear looks to the right from one corner of the frame in the Great Bear rainforest

Save the Great Bears

On hope

2019-12-212020-01-08

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. It is an orientation of the spirit and orientation of the heart..."

Two scientists in orange jackets stand looking at the water on Robert's Bank

Fraser River

Fraser Estuary Connectivity Project Phase II complete

2019-12-132019-12-17

In November we finished the second phase of construction for our Fraser Estuary Connectivity Project. The aim of the project is to provide juvenile salmon...

Fraser River

Habitat connectivity project on Fraser Estuary – documenting the second phase

2019-11-192020-01-06

Tomorrow I head back to the Fraser Estuary with Raincoast Conservation to document the second phase of our habitat connectivity project...

Two men sit on rocks by the water in deep discussion

Events

Stories from the Magic Canoe

2019-11-182019-12-17

Wa’xaid, Cecil Paul, was the last person born in the Kitlope and is chief of the killer whale clan of the Xenaksiala. Under his leadership, protection of the Kitlope set the stage for what would become the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement. From a first ban...

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