Endangered Orcas Need Immediate Help

Lifeforce, a Vancouver based ecology organization, is calling upon the Canadian and US governments to take immediate actions to protect the endangered Southern Community of orcas. Both governments are developing Orca Recovery Plans but it may be too little too late.

January 2, 2006 [Vancouver Island/South Coast]

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Does Logging Impact Biodiversity?

By Dr. Patrick Moore [ Greenwash Alert ]

January 1, 2006 [B.C.]

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Death in Canada could alter Wisconsin's wolf debate

The grisly circumstances surrounding the death of a 22-year-old man in northern Saskatchewan is likely to influence the debate over wolf policy in Wisconsin.

December 30, 2005 [U.S.]

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International Paper, The Conservation Fund and State of N...

December 29, 2005 [U.S.]

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District of Maple Ridge hires full-time environmental pla...

The man who helped Maple Ridge map its vast network of streams using global positioning system technology has been hired on full-time.

December 24, 2005 [Lower Mainland]

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Senate Dems Put Enviros' Dollars Before National Security

When deep pocket environmental lobbyists say "jump," politicians beholden to them respond "how high." Nowhere was this more evident than in the Senate’s recent inability to pass a necessary military funding bill as long as it contained a provision that would have allowed oil and gas production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

December 23, 2005 [U.S.]

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Statement by the Prime Minister on the Arctic Refuge

December 22, 2005 [Canada]

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WWF-Canada Hails Decision on Arctic Refuge

ANWR Caribou Maternity Ward Safe from Oil Drilling, For Now

December 21, 2005 [Canada]

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Re: Leslie Scriveners Marmot article

Leslie Scrivener's article, "The marmot interview" fails to explore the reasons for the virtual extinction of Canada's most endangered mammal, namely the most voracious, unregulated private land clearcutting anywhere in Canada.

December 21, 2005 [B.C.]

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Strait's fate still unsettled

Much has been done to protect B.C.'s vulnerable waters since The Sun ran its first series in 1998, but 63 marine species are still at risk and time is short

December 20, 2005 [B.C.]

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Raincoast responds to Eric de Place

Several days ago, periodic Gristmill contributor Eric de Place of Northwest Environment Watch wrote a post assessing the Raincoast Conservation Foundation's purchase of hunting rights along a broad swath of coastal forest in British Columbia.

December 20, 2005 [B.C.]

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Fate of Puget Sound's orcas hangs in the balance

On a clear morning, Vancouver marine conservationist Peter Hamilton drifts in his boat off Point Roberts, watching the J Pod orcas roll by.

December 18, 2005 [International]

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A scary walk in the Tetons with grizzly bear researchers

It seems clear from the start this is not going to be a simple hands-in-the-pocket hike in the woods.

December 16, 2005 [U.S.]

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West Van Council seeks a rockfish conservation area

FOC has created Rockfish Conservation Areas (RCA) throughout coastal B.C. to try and protect rockfish, which are particularly susceptible to over-fishing because they are slow to reach their reproductive cycle.

December 15, 2005 [B.C.]

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Three arrested at protest over old-growth logging

Three protesters were arrested — one of whom was pepper-sprayed — during a demonstration in support of the preservation of old-growth trees at Nanning Grove near Scotia, Oregon.

December 14, 2005 [U.S.]

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Efforts to protect orcas may have wide impact

What do chemicals you wash down the drain, Navy ships, a proposed Maury Island gravel mine and an international treaty have in common? Each could be affected by the recent protection of Puget Sound killer whales under the Endangered Species Act.

December 13, 2005 [International]

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Conservationists buy rights to big-game hunt

For the first time in B.C. history, an anti-hunting group has bought the guide-outfitting rights to a prime piece of the province's wilderness with a view to ending permanently the commercial killing of all animals in the area.

December 13, 2005 [B.C.]

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Greenpeace Warns WTO Threatening Last Ancient Forests

Environment activist Greenpeace warned the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Friday that further opening of forestry trade threatens the remaining ancient forests, particularly in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Brazil.

December 12, 2005 [International]

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Injunctions an injustice

A group called Women in the Woods, led by 77-year-old B.C. activist Betty Krawczyk, gathered outside B.C. Supreme Courts in Vancouver yesterday to protest court injunctions.

December 9, 2005 [B.C.]

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Logging active despite FPB report

If logging isn't stopped on Southeast Vancouver Island in order to support Forest Practices Board recommendations to protect red-listed plant species, one environmental group will be stepping up their protest.

December 9, 2005 [B.C.]

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Spotted Owl Crisis Prompts First Legal Test of Canada's S...

Only 23 spotted owls remain in British Columbia, and Tuesday environmental groups filed the first legal action of its kind under Canada's Species at Risk Act, seeking federal government intervention to protect the critically endangered bird. Sierra Legal Defence Fund is representing the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, David Suzuki Foundation, ForestEthics and Environmental Defence in the application for judicial review before the Federal Court of Canada.

December 8, 2005 [B.C.]

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Poachers' paradise

In the last two years, the killing of 21 grizzlies broke records that have stood in northwest Montana since the Endangered Species Act became law 30 years ago.

December 8, 2005 [U.S.]

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Fish study counters the Grove parking lot plans

Two years of volunteer time has turned up six reasons why a parking lot should not be built in Cathedral Grove, says independent fisheries biologist Dave Clough.

December 6, 2005 [B.C.]

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What's a Forest Worth? More Than You Might Think.

December 5, 2005 [Canada]

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'Wildlife Interpol' launched to aid endangered species

The global illegal wildlife trade is estimated to be worth at least $10bn a year, slightly less than the trafficking of arms and narcotics.

December 2, 2005 [International]

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