UBC
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2020 has seen record low returns of sockeye to the Fraser River.
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Re: The Pender Islands Big Tree Registry Update
Modelled after UBC’s provincial registry and Gabriola’s Island-specific registry, we are enlisting the help of community members (that’s you!) to help us collect data on the species, location, and size of big trees across North and South Pender Islands. We will be using a convenient, accessible phone app. called iNaturalist to collect information on the big trees we find. -
Pender Islands Big Tree Registry
Do you have a big tree in your back yard? If so, get ready to nominate it for the Pender Islands Big Tree Registry!
Pender Earth’s “Trees-to-Sea” interest group are gearing up to create the Pender Islands Big Tree …
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Part 1 of ‘wild salmon surrounds us’ S1 E5
In part 1 of this 2 part salmon lesson, viewers learn about salmon as the foundation species of BC. -
The salmon forest: how bears connect land and sea S1 E3
Episode 3 of Coastal Insights features Megan Adams and salmon. -
Toward a vision for Ecological Resilience in the Lower Fraser River
Along with the Lower Fraser Fisheries Alliance, Raincoast is chairing a traditional session at the upcoming Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference April 19-22, 2020 Vancouver Convention Centre Vancouver BC. The session, Toward a vision for Ecological Resilience in the Lower Fraser …
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Riley Finn: The importance of the Lower Fraser River to salmon populations
Next week Riley Finn, Raincoast Research Associate and University of BC MSc student in the Conservation Decisions Lab, will be giving a @wildresearch Seminar Series Talk.
He will discuss the importance of the lower Fraser River to salmon populations, …
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15 years and Achiever is still going strong
Over the past 15 years, the Achiever has helped to enable the research efforts many groups and performed extensive work ranging from population estimates and data collection of fin whales, killer whale ecotypes, and humpback entanglement probabilities. She has worked …
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Ensuring the ecological resilience of the Fraser River Estuary
While our research in the Fraser River estuary is focussed on juvenile salmon we also observe a host of other wildlife. The estuary is internationally recognized for its importance to...

