The federal government's recently stated intention to establish a "world-class oil spill response and prevention" plan is clearly designed to assuage public fears in British Columbia over the dramatic increase in oil tanker traffic that would accompany the Enbridge Northern Gateway project and the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain...

Although an increasing number of British Columbians are learning about the provincial government's unscientific and unethical wolf cull, most are likely unaware their tax dollars are supporting not only the killing but also the sanctioned torturing of these animals. To compound matters, the government's persecution and inhumane treatment...

In British Columbia, which provides one of North America's last bastions of wilderness and biodiversity, a symbol of both brings out the best and worst of people. Wolves draw either awe or fury from equally passionate poles. Wolf advocates marvel at the beautiful and intelligent cousin of humankind's best friend,...

Looking back at the year in wildlife management policy for 2012 in B.C., the low point just might have been the rollout of the "Draft Management Plan for the Grey Wolf in British Columbia" by the provincial government's Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources.

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Raincoast Conservation Foundation is excited to present the documentary film, Reflections: Art for an Oil-Free Coast, which shares the story of an expedition of artists into the truly stunning and remote landscape of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, weaving together the artists' work and their emotional response to...

On the heels of the declaration by 10 coastal First Nations that formally oppose the sport hunting of grizzly and black bears on the central and north coast of British Columbia, Raincoast Conservation Foundation has now secured the commercial trophy hunting rights across a large portion...

The government of British Columbia has announced five requirements that must be met before it approves any new heavy-oil pipeline from the Alberta oilsands, such as the Enbridge Northern Gateway project.

The province's primary concern is about getting a bigger piece of the oil royalty pie, which...

If you live in British Columbia there's a good chance that by now you've seen the new Enbridge television advertisements; the warm and fuzzy cartoon animation with the soothing soundtrack and the family strolling down what looks like the yellow brick road, overlaid by a saccharine narration assuring...

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. -- Marshall McLuhan

Fifty artists -- some of the country's most celebrated and many who are First...

British Columbia's parks are a public trust containing regionally, nationally and internationally significant natural and cultural values, so a recent B.C. Parks Annual Report states. How true. These special places -- comprising roughly 12 per cent of the province -- represent our society's investments in conservation that we...

On Earth Day our thoughts at Raincoast Conservation Foundation turned to two of the most iconic species in British Columbia, wild salmon and grizzly bears, as well as their intertwined relationship and how the choices we make are inextricably linked to their fates.

Despite the knowledge that many...

As Saturday marked the 23rd anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the question arises whether the Canadian government has learned any lessons from the 1989 disaster that occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The answer appears to be a resounding "no," given the support to expand Kinder...

A plan to tag endangered killer whales that ply both sides of the international border between British Columbia and the United States is being met with growing opposition in Canada. Despite efforts between the two countries to develop a recovery strategy for the endangered species, a...

Raincoast Conservation Foundation has an exciting project in the works with our friends at Patagonia, a leader among environmentally-minded businesses.

Striving to alert more people about Enbridge's desire to impose tar sands pipelines and super tankers on British Columbia's central and north coast via their proposed...

Other than salmon, few species in British Columbia hold the ecological, cultural and economic importance of Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii. Pacific herring are a cornerstone of the marine foodweb and support a diversity of marine predators. In addition to wildlife, they have sustained coastal First Nation communities for...

In western Canada, wolves are routinely, baselessly and contemptuously blamed for the demise of everything from marmots to mountain caribou. Given that attitude, we at Raincoast Conservation Foundation are appalled, though not surprised, by Canada's proposed strategy to recover dwindling populations of boreal forest caribou in northern Alberta's...

Conflating the interests of the shareholders and investors of energy giants such as Enbridge with those of the Canadian people has become the central talking point for the promoters of Alberta's tar sands. That deliberate conflation is all about generating public support for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, which would...

Earlier this year, energy giant Kinder Morgan submitted an application to the National Energy Board (NEB). The application proposes to increase the capacity of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline that is delivering tar sands crude to the Westridge Marine Terminal in British Columbia's Burrard Inlet. Nothing new for...

A spokesperson for Enbridge Inc. recently claimed that the chance of a catastrophic spill from the oil tanker traffic which would accompany the energy giant's proposed pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to British Columbia's north coast was "one in 15,000 years."

However, the "independent...

With the conclusion of the international Marine Conservation Congress, recently held on Vancouver island, we cannot help but reflect on the current, and future, status of Canada's Pacific coast.

Our unique coastal region is comprised of a fragile archipelago with a boundary between land and ocean that...