Dispatches from the RAVE > Archive
8/20/2011
Living with Spirit Bears - An eyewitness account with photographer and conservationist, Ian McAllister, about the ecosystems, people and wildlife of the Great Bear Rainforest.
3/24/2011
BY DAMIEN GILLIS, The Common Sense Canadian - Opposition to the Northern Gateway Pipeline inspires a vibrant cultural movement in coastal indigenous communities, attracting a global focus.
2/15/2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-Wed.Feb.16th marks the opening of a beautifully dramatic photography exhibit at the Centennial Theatre in N. Vancouver—spOILed: From the Tar Sands to the Great Bear Rainforest.
2/2/2011
Febuary 2, 2011-Tom Peschak Video featuring the threat of the Northern Gateway Pipeline and tankers in the Great Bear Rainforest.
2/1/2011
Watch the award-winning film about the Great Bear Rainforest RAVE and Enbridge's plans to build a pipeline to B.C.'s northern coast.
1/13/2011
January, 2011 - BBC Wildlife Article showcases the work of photographer Thomas Peschack and his unique images of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest.
10/21/2010
Great Bear RAVE on ABC Nightline with David Wright
10/10/2010
CBC RADIO-The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright, - - -The photographers are veterans of environmental battles all over the world. They come, they snap, they champion. . . .
10/1/2010
Photographs from the RAVE brought to UBCM meeting last week to draw attention to resolutions. . .
9/18/2010
Highlights from recent Vancouver events held to showcase the work of the International League of Conservation photographers in the Great Bear Rainforest.
9/15/2010
Saving the World with Photographs- - -Jim Beatty reports on the RAVE as a tool in the fight against Enbridge Inc. . . .
9/14/2010
Mixing Oil and Beauty in B.C.--Jim Beatty reports on the Northern Gateway Project. The stakes are huge as Canada considers. . . .
9/14/2010
After two weeks, iLCP's team of photographers have emerged from the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia's north coast armed with compelling and provocative photographs and film.
9/12/2010
We are closing in on the end of the iLCP RAVE. Time has moved fast and I have not spent a lot of time on photography but fortunately I now find myself shooting aerials in an amphibious Widgeon. . .
9/10/2010
Some days it's simply a challenge to keep your spirits up as you realize the enormity of taking on the international oil industry, trying to protect the values and places we hold dear. But the Great Bear RAVE was a revelation for this tired cynical old campaigner.
9/10/2010
Another Enbridge Inc. pipeline leak occurred in Romeoville, Illinois. . . .
9/8/2010
A solitary set of wolf tracks emerges from an animal trail furrowed into the thick mossy floor of a forest stunted into bonsai shapes by wind. . . .
9/8/2010
Ian McAllister is a founding director of the Canadian based wildlife conservation group Pacific Wild. His photography and film work focuses on the carnivores of the Pacific coast.
9/7/2010
Gerald Amos remembers traveling aboard the Rainbow Warrior toward the head of Gardner Canal where the Kitlope River spills into the sea. As the lush green of the estuary came into focus he noticed his aunt, who had taken up a position on the bow of the boat, had tears in her eyes.
9/6/2010
It’s possible that a mariner could travel weeks in the Great Bear Rainforest exploring inlets, windswept beaches on the outer coast and secluded anchorages without crossing wakes with another boat.
9/6/2010
Thomas P. Peschak is the Chief Photographer of the Save our Seas Foundation and travels extensively in pursuit of marine wildlife and underwater stories. He was born in Germany, but has lead a near continuous nomadic existence and today spends the 100 or so days when he is not on the road in his adopted home of Cape Town, South Africa.
9/4/2010
Raindrops dimple the inlet as Paul Nicklen and Gitga’at bear guide Marven Robinson glide their inflatable toward a bank of rich alluvium where freshwater meets salt.
9/3/2010
“I was sitting at a meeting with a Californian congressman and he was saying how we didn’t have to drill offshore because we could get our oil from Canada,” says iLCP president Cristina Mittermeier.
9/2/2010
An Enviable Simplicity- - -Wally Bolton holds a fish hook in one of his bear paw hands and skewers a piece of salmon.
9/2/2010
For lack of a better cultural reference, I feel as if I’ve landed on the set of the movie Twilight. My niece would be looking over her shoulder for vampires and werewolves, however we’ve traveled...
9/2/2010
When Ian McAllister invited me to a RAVE in the Great Bear Rainforest I imagined strobe lights, trance music and people spinning beneath a September sunset on the beach of some outer coast island...
8/31/2010
"Tar sands. Canada’s gross gift to the Great Lakes. The core of a “pollution delivery system” to the most important fresh water ecosystem...
8/30/2010
iLCP BLOG- - -Armed with a background in marine biology, Cristina Mittermeier turned her focus to images — realizing they were a better tool to tell the story of humans and nature...
8/30/2010
Between now and September 14, the iLCP and a group of internationally renowned photographers are taking part in a RAVE (Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition) in British Columbia's Great Bear...