Wednesday, August 31, 2011
We’re excited to share with you that Coastwatch Director William Housty, along with our friends at Raincoast Conservation Foundation, is featured in a new article by Judith Lavoie at the Victoria Times Colonist. This article highlights some of the important work being done on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk territory. Please follow this link to read [...]
The Nature Conservancy has produced this great profile on the internship program. Check out the short video here:
Our sixth camp, Baxvala Camp, was run with support from our friends and colleagues at Greenpeace Canada. We were fortunate to have Greenpeace’s Eduardo Sousa join us in Koeye for Baxvala Camp, and below, he shares his reflections on his time with us in Koeye. We raise our hands in gratitude to Eduardo and to [...]
Over the coming days, we’ll be sharing some updates with you from our wonderful Koeye Camp staff. Our first message comes from Jayda Wilson, co-director of the camp program. My experiences in Kvai this summer were unforgettable. With this being my first year out there (and collecting the nickname “Rookie”) I’ve gained so many friends, [...]
As our crazy, fantastic, hectic, beautiful summer winds down, we’re turning our minds toward the coming autumn. While we restock our tea supply and process hundreds of wonderful donations from our far-flung friends and supporters in Portland and Toronto, we have a favour to ask of you… Over the course of the spring we had [...]
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Have you checked out Anne Casselman’s four-part series about science in the Great Bear Rainforest? Anne joined us in June of this year to spend time out on the water with folks from Raincoast Conservation Foundation, the Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department and our very own Coastwatch boys. Anne’s thoughtful report is available on the [...]
For Camp 4, our What’s at Stake? Camp, we were joined by friends from Raincoast Conservation Foundation. Misty MacDuffee, Chris Darimont, Brian Falconer, Kyle Artelle and Christina Service spent the week with our kids and staff exploring what’s at stake if the Enbridge Northern Gateway project is pushed through and we see supertankers in our [...]
One freebie and one piece of bait from the Thistalalh Memorial Library! First: Some good news! Please help us in extending a huge THANK YOU to our friends at Random House of Canada for their generous donation of amazing RH titles! In particular, we owe love to the beautiful Louise for her ongoing support for [...]
This past week we had a full camp out on Snipe. For the first few days we shared this island with Chris Filardi (science advisor to the Coastwatch program and longtime supporter of Qqs) and his family. Chris was kind enough to take time out of his vacation to get to know the interns and [...]
Hey this is Louis from Bella Bella. Just about to start week 6 in the Goose Island internship and it only feels like its been 2 weeks since we’ve started. It’s been one heck of an experience. We’ve been doin lots of work all over Goose Island finding out a lot about the plants and [...]