Caviar trade suspended - but can the sturgeon survive?

The suspension of the international trade in caviar from wild sturgeon, announced today by the CITES secretariat in Geneva, has been widely welcomed by environmental groups.

January 3, 2006 [International]

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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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New Year's Resolutions: Kindness to Animals and Respect f...

December 31, 2005 [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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Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest

This extraordinary encyclopedia of Pacific Northwest marine life includes descriptions of some 1400 species of saltwater plants and animals and about 1700 colour photos. While it is particularly relevant to the coast of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, the ranges of most of the included organisms extend from Alaska to central California, where Point Conception (just northwest of Santa Barbara) is the northern boundary to a southern California faunal region.

December 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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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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Studying the fate of drugs in wastewater

December 23, 2005 [International]

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Woolly mammoth genome comes to life

Decoding extinct genomes now possible, says geneticist

December 22, 2005 [Canada]

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Pesticides permeate streams

A fisheries study found 39 different pesticides at one location on Musqueam Creek

December 22, 2005 [B.C.]

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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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Alito Cannot be Trusted to Protect America's Water, Air, ...

Sierra Club Opposes first Supreme Court Nomination since Bork Statement of David Bookbinder, Sierra Club Senior Attorney

December 20, 2005 [U.S.]

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Best Friends Forever: Ban the Use of Dog and Cat Fur Says...

December 20, 2005 [B.C.]

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Unique investment consortium buys Tofino fish plant to bu...

Ecotrust Canada, a community development organization with offices in Vancouver, Courtenay and Tofino, facilitated Trilogy's purchase by local and outside investors to create a base for value-added processing of local fisheries and shellfish. The new shareholders also want to protect the facility from development pressure in a town that is experiencing an explosion of condo and resort building.

December 19, 2005 [B.C.]

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Ship Company to Pay $10.5 Million For Covering Up Oil Pol...

Largest Environmental Criminal Fine in Massachusetts History

December 19, 2005 [U.S.]

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Most of Arctic's Near-Surface Permafrost May Thaw by 2100

December 19, 2005 [Canada]

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Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon low...

December 19, 2005 [International]

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Unlikely Boreal Conservation Alliance gaining momentum - ...

December 19, 2005 [Canada]

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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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NDP vows to fight offshore oil

Federal NDP leader Jack Layton says his party will fight to strengthen a 30-year moratorium on oil and gas exploration along B.C.’s coast.

December 16, 2005 [B.C.]

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Cdn. animal rights activist arrested

A Canadian animal-rights militant convicted twice in his home country of sabotage in the 1990s was indicted on immigration charges here as part of a federal eco-terrorism investigation that has resulted in the arrest of six Americans.

December 15, 2005 [B.C.]

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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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CONSERVATIONISTS FILE LAWSUIT TO PROTECT POLAR BEAR UNDER...

Global Warming, Melting Ice Threaten Bear with Extinction

December 15, 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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Christmas Comes Early for Bears of the Great Bear Rainfor...

Conservation Organization and First Nations Take Control of Coastal Trophy Hunt

December 13, 2005 [B.C.]

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New study pinpoints epicenters of Earth's imminent extinc...

December 12, 2005 [International]

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Activists call for ban on cat, dog fur sales in Europe

Czech Republic fingered as major fur producer

December 9, 2005 [International]

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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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Government Should Warn About Mercury in Fish, Says CSPI

December 7, 2005 [U.S.]

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Leading Mercury Experts: Mercury in Fish Harmful, Harvard...

Mercury levels in fish are high enough to pose health risks to moderate and heavy fish eaters, mercury experts said in a report released today.

December 6, 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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Environmentalists go to court in bid to protect B.C.'s sp...

A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit aimed at preventing the extinction of the spotted owl in British Columbia, now estimated at six remaining breeding pairs.

December 6, 2005 [B.C.]

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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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Startling Cathedral Grove Fish Habitat Assessment Report ...

The Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Mid Island Chapter is pleased to announce that a two-year fish habitat assessment for Cathedral Grove"s Cameron River Floodplain has been completed.

December 1, 2005 [B.C.]

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Canada: Consumers' Association calls for ban on imports o...

THE Consumers' Association of Canada has called on the Canadian Government to immediately ban the further importation of certain fish products from China and Vietnam after malachite green was found in fish purchased at Canadian supermarkets.

December 1, 2005 [International]

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Minister Penner Confuses Logging of Spotted Owl Habitat w...

November 30, 2005 [B.C.]

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Oil port proposals a threat, says Anderson

Retiring Victoria Liberal MP David Anderson warns that proposals for oil ports in Vancouver and Kitimat are more imminent threats to B.C.'s marine environment than offshore oil and gas exploration.

November 25, 2005 [B.C.]

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Removing Egg From Nest May Help Save Endangered Whooping ...

Removing an egg from the endangered whooping crane's nest increases the species chances of survival despite governmental concerns about tampering with nature, says a University of Alberta scientist.

November 25, 2005 [Canada]

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Softwood Lumber Ruling in Canada's Favor No Break for For...

Softwood lumber trade with the United States has long driven environmentally unsustainable logging in Canada’s primary and old growth forests.

November 24, 2005 [Canada]

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Oil Tankers Are Coming to the BC Coast

November 24, 2005 [Lower Mainland]

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It's a war of the woods in B.C.

There is peace in the Great Bear Rainforest, but it is a tentative peace

November 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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NDP to undertake fish farm study in B.C.

Fish farm review being watched closely; Robin Austin to lead legislative aquaculture committee .

November 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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