A Comox Valley family had a meeting with some humpback whales recently, between Comox and Texada Island. Carolyn and Steve Touhey were out on their boat with a friend on Sunday, when they spotted the telltale whale spouts nearby. “I think there were four [in the pod] – […]
Two more Asian giant hornets have been found in Washington state, just 13 kilometres from B.C.’s border. The insects, formally known as Vespa mandarinia but sometimes called ‘murder hornets,’ are invasive to the region and known to devastate honeybee colonies. In July, the WSDA captured its first-ever live Asian giant […]
Returns of adult sockeye salmon in B.C.’s Fraser River were supposed to clock in at nearly one million this year. Instead, the forecast has been revised down to what would be a record-low return of 283,000. Head north to Yukon, and it’s a similar story. Officials had expected to see […]
The Coastal Gaslink pipeline is a $6.6-billion-project that will carry fracked natural gas from Dawson Creek in northeastern B.C., to Kitimat on the coast where it will be processed and shipped to Asian markets. Twenty elected First Nation band councils along the route have signed impact benefit agreements […]
When juvenile wild salmon migrate to sea this spring, there will be six fewer salmon farms on the coast of BC. According a press release from the ‘Namgis First Nation (Alert Bay), back in 2019, “three First Nations off northeastern Vancouver Island signed agreements with the federal and […]
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is aiming to protect the cost of British Columbia through Operation Virus Hunter. As part of that operation Sea Shepherd crew members have been on the water documenting a mass salmon die-off event at salmon farms within Clayoquot Sound, a UNESCO listed World Biosphere […]
A mass salmon die-off at a Newfoundland fish farm last month has highlighted environmental risks and transparency issues facing the region’s growing aquaculture industry as some Atlantic provinces pin economic hopes on its development. Northern Harvest Sea Farms, owned by the Norwegian company Mowi, attributed the deaths to […]
One on the top 5 environmental concerns of 2019 is, sad to say, quite active on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Conservationists with the Ancient Forest Alliance are dismayed that new logging has commenced on Edinburgh Mountain, an old-growth “hotspot” of high conservation value near Port Renfrew in Pacheedaht […]
A massive, unexplored cave that’s likely among the country’s largest has been discovered in a remote valley in B.C.’s Wells Gray Provincial Park. This in near Fernie BC. The cave was initially spotted in April by a Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations helicopter team doing […]
Conservationists on Canada’s West Coast are raising a red flag. A diver and BC government captured video and took various samples of what some fish farms release into the ocean. The video footage caught the attention of government scientists who confirmed the presence of the highly-contagious piscine reovirus […]
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