Road bulding underway near Jordan River. Rally Thursday!

Trees are falling and rocks are being blasted for road materials, in preperation for Western Forest Products subdivisions, across from Sandcut Beach and a few kms from Jordan River.
Join us at Library Square at Noon this Thursday, July 10, and help save this land while there is still time.
While many of us are enjoying our [...]

Dire picture of B.C. wildlife, wilderness

Catherine Rolfsen, Vancouver Sun
A “groundbreaking” report on the state of B.C. wildlife and wilderness
to be released Wednesday by the provincial government paints a dire
picture, according to a scientist with the David Suzuki Foundation.
“Sadly, it’s going to show that, despite the assumption that most of
us have that live here that we have a bounty and a [...]

Japanese Whalers Using Humpbacks To Blackmail the International Whaling Commission

By: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
July 4, 2008 - “Let us kill the Piked and Fin whales or the Humpbacks will die,” is the message from Joji Morishita of the Japanese Institute for Cetacean Research.
Once again the Japanese whalers are threatening to slaughter Humpbacks unless they get permission to slaughter a thousand Piked whales and fifty [...]

Brucellosis focus shifts from bison to elk

By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — Government agencies killed more than 6,000 wild bison leaving Yellowstone National Park over the last two decades — the grisly result of efforts to contain a serious livestock disease carried by the animals.
But the crosshairs are shifting to a new target, elk, as the disease infects cattle in [...]

Release of captured bison back into Yellowstone signals short repreive from harrassment and slaughter

-By Cory Hatch Jackson Hole, Wyoming News
Wildlife managers released roughly 300 Yellowstone bison back into the park Monday morning after roughly a month of captivity near the park’s North Entrance.
The bison include about 80 calves that were born at the Stephens Creek Bison Capture Facility. Twelve bison died at the facility, including several calves, most [...]

Wild Bison Defence Update May

* Buffalo Advocates Rally in Helena
With banners and tombstones in hand, and strong hearts that have withstood a season of tremendous buffalo slaughter, Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers trekked to Montana’s capitol, Helena, on Wednesday, May 15, for a rally to draw attention to Montana Governor Schweitzer’s role in the shameful slaughter of America’s last wild [...]

Wild Bison Defence Update For May 8

-from Buffalo Field Campaign
* Update from the Field
The road through Yellowstone is now open to cars. In years past, during this season, on a drive through the park you would be hard pressed not to see several hundred buffalo and many newborn calves. This season, people who have taken this drive have felt as if [...]

The ugly economy of killing wildlife

by Lisa Upson and Wendy Keefover-Ring, High Country News
Most Americans have never heard of the federal agency euphemistically known as Wildlife Services. Yet it was a major force in eliminating wolf and grizzly bear populations in the early 20th century, and today spends over $100 million each year using mostly taxpayer dollars to kill [...]

Rare owl found in West Kootenay

The Canadian Press
Trail, B.C. — A wildlife biologist says an endangered species of owl has been located in the Fruitvale area of the West Kootenay.
Jakob Dulisse of the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Compensation program said the western screech owls are rare, but it’s hard to know how many of them are in British Columbia [...]

Sea lions shot dead on Columbia River as salmon battle rages

By WILLIAM McCALL – 2 hours ago
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — For years, the sea lions lounging at the Bonneville Dam have had easy pickings from salmon waiting to go up fish ladders to upriver spawning grounds.
Over the weekend, the federally protected sea creatures were themselves easy prey for a gunman who shot and killed six [...]