BearID detects a bear’s face in an image and classifies the individual. It’s facial recognition for bears!
Dr. Melanie Clapham, a postdoctoral researcher at University of Victoria working with Raincoast’s Applied Conservation Science lab has been exploring facial recognition technology …
The Raincoast Applied Conservation Science Lab at the University Of Victoria has completed its second year of research to study how varying human activity may affect grizzly bear behaviour in partnership with Nuxalk Fisheries and Wildlife (Nuxalk Nation) and BC …
We are working to protect British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest from commercial trophy hunting.
We do this by purchasing the hunting rights and then effectively extinguishing trophy hunting of coastal carnivores.
We have already purchased hunting rights in 33,500km². For …
Next week’s Coastal Insights Education program is focused on ethical wildlife photography.
Photographer Eric Sambol of Eric Sambol Photography will be sharing breath-taking images of the beautiful nature and wildlife he’s working hard to help highlight and conserve. Raincoast’s communication’s …
We are working to protect British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest from commercial trophy hunting.
We do this by purchasing the hunting rights and then effectively extinguishing trophy hunting of coastal carnivores.
We have already purchased hunting rights in 33,500 square …
With coronavirus affecting normalcy around the world, the Raincoast Lab at the University of Victoria is not going to be doing fieldwork this season, and instead will maintain virtual connection, support from afar.
Ilona Mihalik shared about the work the …
Here is a mother Grizzly and her two cubs in Nuxalk Territory shot on one of our field trailcams last season.
This video was taken as a part of a multi-year research project in collaboration with BC Parks and the …
Great news! We have now raised over $250,000 towards the $650,000 needed to acquire the Kitlope commercial trophy hunting tenure. Success means that we extinguish commercial trophy hunting of carnivores in the stunning Kitlope Watershed, located on the northern reaches …
Lauren Henson of the Raincoast Applied Conservation Science Lab at University of Victoria uses bear hair to research population structures of grizzly and black bears from the interior of B.C. to the coast. She just wrote an article about her …
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 is …
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Raincoast’s Chris Genovali, Misty MacDuffee and Paul C. Paquet wrote an op-ed about the recent images of malnourished grizzly bears on B.C.’s coast and the media linking it to climate change – which we think is not the case.
Read …
Raincoast Applied Conservation Science Lab has launched a multi-year research project to understand if ecotourism has any effects on bear presence, numbers, and behaviour.
Kate Field, researcher with Raincoast conservation and PhD student at the Applied Conservation Science Lab at …
Watching bears fish all day was surreal.
We were lucky enough to be guided by Marven Robinson, a renowned guide from the Gitga’at Nation, to one of their bear watching platforms. He knows so many of the bears by name …
Who says it’s too late in the summer for a float?
Guided by Nuxalk Stewardship, we use methods in ethology to investigate potential effects on grizzly bear behaviour in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Nuxalk Territory.
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Grizzly under trees.…
Conducting research, hiking to the river with Ron Schooner in autumn 2018.
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Check in tomorrow when the Bear monitoring crew in Haíłzaqv (Heiltsuk) Territory will be taking us along on their day out in the field.⠀
They will be collecting black and grizzly bear hair, which allow for examining bear population estimates …
Sitting on our haunches?
At the end of December 2018 we completed fundraising for the Nadeea commercial hunting tenure.
We are now busy negotiating the purchase of another tenure. Our goal, with our Coastal First Nations partners, remains: to end …
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.…
20″ x 30″ photographic paper print framed to 30 x 45 inches by Brad Hill.
…“This moment is from a misty and moody morning during the autumn of 2011 in British Columbia’s spectacular Great Bear Rainforest. We had been watching
Exhibit text: “With this creature, I think the ratio of watching versus being watched is about a thousand to one. We are so often witnessed and silently tracked by these invisible eyes. Being able to stare back is a rare …
One Shot for Coastal Carnivores Exhibit Feature • Botany Bay by Karen Cooper
Exhibit Text: “Botany Bay on the west coast of Vancouver Island has everything you would expect from a name steeped in legend. Rugged, rocky, windswept and hauntingly …
Today is the last public viewing opportunity to come check out the One Shot for Coastal Carnivores Exhibit at the Karen Cooper Gallery on Granville Island from 10am – 5pm. This exhibit is rolling out thanks to the generous donations …