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A black bear and a white bear, with the black bear's mouth on the white bear cub's cuff in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Events

Something special for ‘Giving Tuesday’

2017-11-222019-02-13

We have something very special coming this 'Giving Tuesday'. Any guesses?

still water of a lake with BC forests in the background and a low lying cloud or two floating.

Conservation Foundation

Brian Falconer on CFAX 1070 today at 2:30pm to discuss BC Liberals’s plan to privatize wildlife management

2017-06-022019-02-13

What will become of the BC Liberal's plan to privatize wildlife management in British Columbia? Christy Clark's BC Liberals announced...

spirit bear on a log looking down into the water

Save the Great Bears

Celebrate World Wildlife Day – Protect Spirit Bears

2017-03-032019-02-13

A spirit bear treat for World Wildlife Day. In 2012 we acquired a second hunting license in...

Salish Sea Emerging Stewards

The Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program

2017-02-162019-02-13

In 2016 we launched the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program to provide inspiring opportunities for local youth to learn, and teach us, about local conservation and resource management issues. We provided direct experience...

Bald eagle swims close to the surface of water, shadow visible

Conservation Foundation

We invite wildlife photographers to support us

2017-02-092019-02-13

We are fortunate to share our passion for protecting the land, waters and wildlife of coastal British Columbia with a host of fantastic wildlife photographers. If you would like share content...

Two black grizzly bears on all fours foraging in a patch of grass between water

Safeguard Coastal Carnivores

Join us in capturing (great photographs) of grizzlies

2017-01-312019-02-13

Views like this are not unusual in the Great Bear Rainforest. Our strategy to end the trophy hunting of grizzly bears and wolves includes...

Photo of a boat anchored in the water, while a grizzly bear watches from the shore

Salmon Carnivore Project

Our Notes From The Field series

2017-01-252019-02-13

Our Notes From The Field series brings you to the places and species we work to protect...

Beautiful brown grizzly bear face with mouth partially open

Raincoast research

Tracking Raincoast into 2017

2016-12-232019-02-13

What's that? Tracking Raincoast into 2017 is out? For news on our conservation and research highlights from 2016...

Four bears stand on a log in a row looking for fish in the water under the log.

Raincoast research

Annual report cover models: Bears

2016-12-212019-12-12

These bears grace the cover of our annual report - Tracking Raincoast. If you want the inside track on our plans...

Poster of orca whale tail in the blue ocean under a moonlit blue sky, with the text Prime Minister Trudeau: Stop Kinder Morgan

Conservation Foundation

Save the Salish Sea. Stop Kinder Morgan. New animation launched.

2016-11-172019-02-13

Today we launched a new animation with Georgia Strait, BC and Friends of the San Juans. It illustrates the potential effects of a Kinder Morgan oil spill...

ocean visible beyond rocky beach with bright orange plastic that marks the Nathan E Steart oil spill

Conservation Foundation

The Nathan E Stewart oil spill in Heiltsuk Territory

2016-10-272019-02-13

Not so pretty but very real. This is the Nathan E Stewart oil spill in Heiltsuk Territory. This beach is one shared by...

pod of at least six orcas visible spouting water in a stretch of ocean in Heiltsuk Territory near the Nathan E Stewart oil spill

Marine mammals

Killer whales near the Nathan E Stewart oil spill

2016-10-252019-02-13

A pod of killer whales, orca in Seaforth channel Heiltsuk Territory near the Nathan E Stewart oil spill. As this incident continues to unfold, we are reminded of...

A grizzly bear looks into the camers from behind medium tall grass in the Great Bear Rainforest

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

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...

Puffed up white clouds in a blue sky and mountains looming beside water

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

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...

A sepia toned image of three backpackers walking amidst grass

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'...

Hat on head of Raincoast staff Lia visible as they bend down to work with sedge

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 staff member stands on the banks of the Fraser River estuary with a net

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...

Two raincoast staff on a boat use a device to look at fish closely and identify it

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 staff holds up a fish measuring box up to the camera on close up

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...

A bear standing on a mountain slope covered with green grass

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...