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7/27/2010Recount of B.C. wolf hunt
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun. The use of bait and high-powered snowmobiles to target a wolf pack during a guided trophy hunt in BC this spring raises questions about "fair chase". . .
7/26/2010North Vancouver men walk Enbridge pipeline route
By LARRY PYNN, Vancouver Sun- Vancouver duo on a 1,150-km journey to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of the proposed Enbridge pipeline find support even in Canada's oil-and-gas heartland.
6/14/2010Connecting with Nature via Technology
By Ryan Nadel, The Mark- - -A live, interactive video feed can help bridge the disconnect between students and their natural surroundings.
6/11/2010Oil Spill Moves North
by Giles Slade, The Huffington Post- - -an interview with Ian McAllister on the Enbridge Inc. brochures recently sent to BC coastal communities. . .
5/19/2010STANDUP4GREATBEAR Expedition 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 385 km stand up paddleboard expedition completed successfully in Bella Bella.
4/22/2010Coastal waters are no place for oil tankers
Special to the Vancouver Sun- - - Federal studies have repeatedly concluded that oil tankers must be prohibited in some sensitive marine areas because of the severe risks.
4/13/2010Ban the Trophy Hunt in the Great Bear Rainforest
BY IAN McALLISTER, COMMON GROUND, EARTH DAY 2010 EDITION- - - -On April 1, the BC government opened the trophy hunt of bears in the Great Bear Rainforest.
4/10/2010Great Bear Rainforest Threatened by Power Project
BY SCOTT SIMPSON, THE VANCOUVER SUN- - -Environmentalists are alarmed that BC Hydro may be considering a $2.5-billion hydroelectric dam project that would extend almost six kilometres into a nature conservancy in the Great Bear rainforest.
3/27/2010When Bears Go Fishing in the Rainforest
Vancouver Sun- Read an excerpt from the newly released book THE SALMON BEARS by Nicholas Read and Ian McAllister
3/27/2010It's going to be bigger than Clayoquot Sound
BY MARK HUME, the Globe and Mail- - - The looming fight over the Great Bear Rainforest will once again put B.C. at ground zero of the global environment movement.
3/24/2010Enbridge Pipeline Project Dead
BY SUZANNE FOURNIER-VANCOUVER PROVINCE---An unprecedented alliance of First Nations, environmentalists, unions, businesses and Olympic athletes unite to oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline.
2/26/2010B.C. parks and protected areas? Or a cemetery for grizzlies?
BY LARRY PYNN, Vancouver Sun- - - Conservation groups are calling for greater protection for the iconic white spirit bear, or kermode, of the northwest coast.
2/24/2010Impending Spring Hunt Imperils Iconic Spirit Bear
BY MARK HUME, Globe and Mail---Bear-viewing guide believes that there are no more than 200 white bears on the B.C. coast.
2/24/2010Hands Off Our Spirit Bear
BY BARBARA YAFFE, Vancouver Sun- - -The lucre of the trophy hunt must be weighed against the morality of wiping out a life. . .
2/22/2010One Sport That Doesn't Deserve a Trophy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - BC trophy hunt puts Olympic Games symbol and iconic spirit bear at risk.
2/18/2010Two groups at odds in determining the fate of the bears
BY GEORGE T. BAKER, Prince Rupert Daily News, A notice placed by the BC Wildlife Federation may break what little potential there was for an agreement between BC's Coastal First Nations and the BCWF.
2/16/2010Dazzling Images, with Irony to Match
By STEPHEN HUME, Vancouver Sun-Friday's Winter Games opening ceremony paid homage to the spirit bear, salmon runs and old-growth forests, but gov't policies do little to preserve these gems of nature.
2/15/2010The Sport That Should Be Banned
For Immediate Release: Growing international network calls on B.C. to end the "Sport" that government does not want people to know about -- the trophy hunt of bears in the Great Bear Rainforest.
2/3/2010No Pipeline is a Good Pipeline
BY DAN MESEC, Smithers Interior News. Around these parts Enbridge and their pipeline proposal is a hot topic. . . .2/3/2010Organizations and community groups condemn Enbridge review process
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 19 organizations have written to the CEAA regarding the terms of reference. . .READ ON.
12/31/2009Pacific Wild Winter Newsletter-2009/10
Learn about Pacific Wild's current and upcoming projects. . .
12/18/2009The Big Push-Winner Announced
The MDM Program is pleased to announce that Pacific Wild is the winner of The Big Push: MDM's Social Change Initiative.12/3/2009Enbridge project's potential hazards making opponents edgy
By Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun---Environmental activists try to turn off the oilsands taps by targeting pipeline carrying oil from Alberta to Pacific for transit to Asia.
11/4/2009Call to cancel spring grizzly-bear hunt as numbers fall
Parks Canada estimates that up to 20,000 grizzly bears remain in western Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories and British Columbia. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada lists the grizzly bear as a "Special Concern".
11/3/2009Media Release-BC Government Confirms Grizzly Bears Missing on BC North Coast
Die-off attributed to salmon collapse and long, cold winter. With this alarming evidence clearly at hand, the Province should have acted to manage our coastal bears . . .
10/24/2009Grizzly Numbers Drop on B.C.'s Central Coast
CTV-BC NEWS REPORT WITH LEAH HENDRY. On average, 38 bears are spotted during the province's annual survey on B.C.'s central coast. This year, there were 20.
9/20/2009Grizzly bear decline alarms conservationists in Canada
BY TRACY McVEIGH- - -U.K. OBSERVER Demand for halt to hunting after decline in salmon stocks is blamed for bears starving to death,
9/19/2009An Ecosystem in Turmoil Puts Its Predators at Risk
BY MARK HUME- - - GLOBE AND MAIL With salmon stocks collapsing at alarming rates, some environmentalists fear the bears which are dependant on fish for food could be the next to go
9/10/2009Media Release-BC Government Opens Controversial Trophy Hunt Season
Coastal grizzly and black bears targeted despite reports of missing bears.
9/9/2009B.C. grizzly bear population may be declining with salmon stocks
BY SUZANNE FOURNIER, The Province---- Grizzly bear hunting will start Thursday in B.C., despite dire warnings by frontline observers that the mighty bears are disappearing. . . .9/9/2009Global TV-News Hour with Tony Parsons
Alarming new evidence that grizzlies are disappearing. . . .Watch Global's most recent news report.. . .9/9/2009Grizzly Bears Vanishing From Canada's Great Bear Rainforest
ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE Conservationists and bear viewing guides are blaming the disappearance of the bears on the overfishing of salmon, their main food source.9/8/2009Grizzlies Starve as Salmon Disappear
BY MARK HUME, GLOBE AND MAIL---- As salmon numbers drop, bears are also few and far between along B.C.'s wild central coast – signalling what conservationists say is an unfolding ecological disaster...
9/8/2009Grizzly Bear Die-Off Reported in the Great Bear Rainforest
North coast conservationists and bear viewing operators are urging both the Federal and Provincial governments to take immediate action as alarming evidence emerges on B.C.’s salmon creeks and rivers that north coast grizzlies, including females and cubs, have died off in significant numbers.
7/30/2009Howl in the Mist
by Andrew Findley, Westworld Magazine showcases Pacific Wild's work and all that B.C. stands to lose if the oil tanker moratorium is lifted.
7/9/2009Global TV - Focus on the North
Trophy hunting continues in one of the most pristine wilderness areas of B.C. . . .7/7/2009Expanded ban on grizzly, black bear hunting in B.C. met with skepticism
By Dakshana Bascaramurty, Globe and Mail- - -They're the hefty beasts that troll the northern Pacific coast of British Columbia for fresh salmon in the fall. . .
6/17/2009Games will be used to spotlight 300 dead bears
by Ethan Baron, The Province- - -Chance to halt damnation closing rapidly, ecologists say. . .
6/15/2009Why are we still killing for sport?
By D. Simon Jackson, special to CBC NewsIn this rainforest, there are, in fact, two Great Bears.6/13/2009Investigation underway after bear-baiter found
BY LAURA STONE, Vancouver Province- - -Fish heads and guts were among the bait that conservationists claim was used to lure Grizzly bears to be shot. . .6/12/2009Trophy hunters in the line of fire
BY LARRY PYNN, Vancouver Sun---Gary Shelton has shot his share of grizzlies over the years. . .6/12/2009Illegal Grizzly Bear Poaching Discovered in Great Bear Rainforest Park
Press Advisory-A grizzly bear trophy hunter was found illegally baiting bears Thursday night in the Giltoyees River Conservancy Area on the B.C. north coast. . .6/3/2009Tar sands and the BC coast....
Kitimat Sentinal: Oil sands and the risk to BC’s coastline was the topic for two-authors at the end of a five-day tour of BC’s northwest.6/2/2009A Story with Two Ends. . .Our Story
Burns Lake District News. Here is a story that concerns both you and me. It is the story of our future. And it goes like this. . .
5/16/20095/14/2009Trophy Hunting of Rare Breed Continues Despite B.C. Government's Protection of Great Bear Rainforest
George T. Baker, Canadian Press
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2/23/2009Grizzlies Starving on the B.C. Coast
Vancouver Sun-Grizzlies wake early from winter slumber. Climate change and declining salmon stocks to blame.2/5/2009Pipeline would bring tankers into B.C. inlets by Andrew Findlay
Critics claim that B.C.’s coastline will face new risks if Enbridge Inc. builds twin pipelines to Kitimat.
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Companies' Push for Supertanker Unpopular with B.C. Residents
Companies' push for supertankers unpopular with British Columbian's Poll shows seven in ten residents support a ban on oil tankers
6/26/2008Hunting for Grizzly Bears
More and more foreigners are paying top dollar for the opportunity to see a magnificent grizzly in the wild. British Columbia, though, still permits the sport killing of an animal that is highly evocative of what remains of our wilderness.
6/10/2008
Majority in B.C. Want Grizzly Hunt Banned: Poll
Grizzly hunting should be banned in B.C., more than seven in 10 British Columbians say. The new province-wide opinion poll was conducted by McAllister Opinion Research for the B.C.-based conservation group Pacific Wild.
6/10/2008
Opposition to Killing Grizzlies for Sport on the Rise
Seven years after the British Columbia government lifted a moratorium on the sport hunting of grizzly bears, a growing number of people want to see the practice banned again.
6/10/2008
End The Trophy Hunt Say Seven In Ten B.C. Residents
“Since Premier Campbell re-instituted the BC trophy hunt for grizzlies in 2001, support for banning the trophy hunt has gone up 20 points across all regions of the province with a 60% support for the ban amongst licensed BC hunters,”
6/1/2008BBC Wildlife Magazine Article
The Wild Wolves. The best images of these iconic predators you'll ever see.
4/28/2008
Last Wild Wolves Is The Leader Of The Pack
McAllister’s book wins the BC Booksellers Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
4/5/2008
B.C. Hydro and Conservancy Plans Collide
Two years after a landmark agreement was struck by politicians, environmentalists and aboriginals to conserve an area of British Columbia's coast, a $200-million hydro project that critics say would do exactly the opposite is stalling legislation to protect a key site.
4/1/2008
Protecting The Environment A Family Affair
Protecting the environment a family affair West Coast couple and their children live what they speak
4/1/2008