Multi-year summer droughts. Forest fire smoke turning the sun orange. Winter storms increasing erosion of the shoreline. Coastal communities may…
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$12,700 raised for orca protection!
Thanks to the support of 229 contributors, Rama DelaRosa’s Swim for the Salish Sea Orcas raised $12,700 to save the…
Read more »Round and round we go … but where to, we don’t know
Prime Minister Trudeau’s government has announced a new National Energy Board process for the Trans Mountain tanker-and-pipeline project. The Federal…
Read more »A Summer with Georgia Strait Alliance
In May, Octavio Cruz and I joined Georgia Strait Alliance’s Species Protection Outreach Team as summer students. Our goal was…
Read more »The Whale Guru
Ron Bates, known as the Whale Guru by his loved ones, has spent most of his life with killer whales…
Read more »Who grew those oysters on your plate?
The story of shellfish from tide-to-table The average seafood eater on BC’s South Coast is probably blissfully unaware that it…
Read more »Clean Marine BC raises the bar
Not only has participation in Clean Marine BC, our voluntary eco-certification program, been growing in leaps and bounds – our marinas…
Read more »Apex Predators and a Healthy Planet
Large predators often get a bad rap in terms of public outlook and opinion. Large predators in both marine and…
Read more »Green boating in the southern Salish Sea
We recently had a chance to speak with Adria Lau, Program Manager of Washington’s Clean Boating Foundation, which has many similarities…
Read more »From Machine Guns to Save-the-Whales
A History of Human and Orca Interactions In June 1961, the Department of Fisheries mounted a .50 caliber machine-gun overlooking…
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