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Seeing the Big Picture

The wildlife photographers who are participating in the Great Bear RAVE are not looking for close-up photos of bears or wolves.

The Ocean is our Fridge

Yesterday I caught a coho salmon in Douglas Channel, the narrow fjord that Enbridge wants to ship crude oil supertankers through. I pulled up a crab trap full of crabs.

The Rain Changes Everything

The International League of Conservation Photographers has descended, en masse, to document what it at stake if oil tankers are allowed to transit this coast. Over the next two weeks, they will bear witness to the beauty of this region through video and photographs. They are here to bring the story to the world of all that stands to be lost if we allow oil to be shipped in supertankers through the Great Bear Rainforest.

Welcome to Our Water BC

Welcome to Our Water BC – a new resource for you to help shape British Columbia’s water future. The BC government is changing how we manage water in this province - make sure they know how to do it right!

B.C.’s Endangered Species

British Columbia is the most biologically diverse province in Canada, with two dozen unique mammal species in an array of habitats, according to the Sierra Club. While this is worthy of celebration, the fact that the province has hundreds of species and ecosystems at risk, and still lacks a law to protect endangered species, is not.

Climate change and B.C. forest stewardship – a widening gap

There is a widening gap between what we know about the importance of our forests for our survival and government stewardship in B.C.

New NASA map shows why B.C.’s coastal rainforest is globally unique and needs protection

Destructive logging practices like large clear cuts in temperate rainforest cause a massive loss of carbon storage. The emissions from decomposing slash and exposed soils continue to be released for decades before younger trees get close to the annual sequestration capacity needed to neutralize the ongoing emissions.

Budget Bill Appals

Surely any rational person who was not blinded by fear of change and greed would be insisting on the most rigorous environmental assessment of everything we do, not tearing down the few safeguards we have against our folly

Another Sock in the Eye

 

Andrew S. Wright's Great Bear Expedition: Final Update - Travelling the Proposed Northern Tanker Route

As the MV Great Bear II closes upon the port of Prince Rupert and this expedition draws to a close I get the opportunity to reflect. This trip has been an affirmation rather than a revelation. It is my sixth trip to the central coast, the high degree of biodiversity never fails to amaze me —from the largest marine and terrestrial mega-fauna to the simple sedges and elegant eelgrasses.