Originally published on Greenpeace International
Editors Note: Rex Weyler is now a resident of Cortes Island
From 1974 to 1982, I served as photographer on Greenpeace campaigns. Here are a dozen photographs from those years and some memories that they evoke.
Continue reading A photographer looks back at Greenpeace’s early years – Part 2
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The return of a mother humpback whale and calf to B.C. waters should be cause for celebration, says Saturna Island resident Susie Washington-Smyth, but instead it’s causing dismay and concern for a coastal citizen science group.
Continue reading Citizen science whale observers worry humpbacks being harassed
Wild Waterways Adventures officially launched last year but for Jenefer Smalley it is part of a lifelong pursuit.
“My whole entire life, I’ve had an affinity and a connection with wildlife. I thought I would go to college to become a wildlife biologist or a fisheries biologist. Then when I finally went to college, I realized I wasn’t really into running statistics and mathematical models, I wanted to be out in the field with wildlife. So when I graduated, just on a whim, I got a job in the field of ecotourism out of Campbell River,” explained Smalley.
Continue reading The passion behind Wild Waterways Adventures
Dr. Kelsey Gil is a postdoctoral researcher at UBC’s department of zoology and the lead author of a paper published in Current Biology that literally peaks down the throat of a lunge whale.
Lunge feeding whales (humpbacks, blue whales and fin whales etc) open their mouths as they accelerate towards their prey.
Continue reading Looking down the throat of a Humpback Whale
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a survey that showed the total number of marine species at risk within the Salish Sea doubled between 2002 and 2015. While the Discovery Islands are within the study area, the EPA study did not list specific locations. So Cortes Currents asked Max Thaysen, President of the Friends of Cortes Island, about the species of risk in our area.
Continue reading The accelerating pace of Species becoming ‘at Risk’
