Orca Sounding Rises for the Extinction Rebellion

People from around the world have been passionately reacting to the UN’s news that we’re currently nowhere close to hitting the 1.5˚C target.  There has been a huge outcry from ordinary citizens around the world, pleading with their leaders to listen. ...

A Plea from Our Resident Orcas

Video: Raincoast Conservation Foundation Dear Humans We are the matriarchs of the orcas, the mothers and the grandmothers of the pods who you call L, J and K, we protect the oceans and our soundings echo throughout the Salish Sea. We are putting out a fierce call to...

Orcas Go to Court

THE PEOPLE vs KINDER MORGAN AN ORCA SOUNDINGS INITIATIVE  by Ana Simeon |  RAVEN  Brilliant sunshine greeted the first day of the massive Kinder Morgan legal challenge in federal court in Vancouver.  The morning opened with legal arguments from Tsleil-Waututh Nation...

EYE TO EYE: Whale Encounter

FROM THE ARCHIVES:  A Journal Entry by John T. Shields On a cool August morning, I was sailing off south Oak Bay in my 30′ wooden sailboat. In the waters off Trial Island the winds dropped and a dense fog rose. The morning light turned the cool fog into a golden...