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Early birds: Photographer spots Brant geese down-Island ahead of usual PQB return

Bin-busting bears in Tofino and Ucluelet making quick work of bear-resistant garbage cans

Storm knocks out power and impacts travel on Vancouver Island Saturday

90,000 without power, ferries cancelled as storm batters Vancouver Island

Province issues travel advisory as 'bomb cyclone' hits Vancouver Island causing widespread power outages

Snow falls on Vancouver Island north of Campbell River ahead of bomb cyclone

'Swarm of earthquakes' rattle off B.C.'s coast, no tsunami expected

Massive ocean sunfish spotted off Vancouver Island

Tapioca disease in pink salmon

Invasive goldfish seen swimming under ice at Okanagan pond

'We have NEVER documented this before': Tofino tourism operator witnesses killer whales attacking humpback

Encouraging signs in Huu-ay-aht rivers, despite salmon declines elsewhere

The wall lizard invasion of Vancouver Island

Decrease in Prawn Abundance of Desolation Sound

More than 200 illegal fishing nets seized on Fraser River by fishery officers

'Once in a millennium': Record-breaking rogue wave measured off Vancouver Island

Fisherman snags barracuda off Vancouver Island in rare encounter

Velella velella Strandings in Tofino

Gooseneck Barnacles

BC Hydro reservoirs see record low rain across Vancouver Island

Victoria broke its record for driest November in more than 25 years

Tofino fish farms reporting mass die-offs due to harmful algae

Young Beaver (Castor canadensis) a Long Way from Nearest Known Beaver Pond

Hypothermic tropical sea turtle rescued from waters near Port Alberni

Declining Snow and Summer Rain in the Alberni Valley

Sea Lice Plagues Return and Threat to Wild Salmon Increases

Dead and dying salal plants ‘everywhere’ along the coast

Salal plant dying across Vancouver Island

Trees Broken, Uprooted, Toppled by Wind

Windstorm and Widespread Forest Blowdown

Hurricane force winds recorded near Tofino

Black-tailed Gull (Larus crassirostris) in Lund/Powell River

Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula) in Campbell River

Northernmost American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) Observation on iNaturalist

Thick smoke in the Alberni Valley, lasting days

Ship Creek Almost Dry

European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) invaded our neighborhood and city

Old-growth logging in Nahmint Valley

Farmed Atlantic Salmon Virus Linked to Disease in Chinook

Shifting species composition of sealions at Hornby Island

Sperm whale in the Salish Sea

Ahousaht Harbor: Swimming Hole Monitoring

Chordgrass (Spartina sp.) eradication at Goose Spit

Paper Mill Dam: Swimming Hole Monitoring

What's That We're Hearing? Sea Otters in the Salish Sea?

Atlantic salmon arrive in French Creek -- Not in a good way!

Wildfire smoke leads to weather alert on Vancouver Island

B.C.'s coastal sea star population in increasingly hot water

Bumper harvest as herring return to Strait of Georgia in great numbers

Thousands of Dead Red Rock Crabs (Cancer productus) on Beach

Unusual Turbidity in Sarita River

Toxic algae blamed for die-off at 2 salmon farms in Clayoquot Sound

Hummingbird Sightings on the Sunshine Coast

Whales Are Dying Off North America’s West Coast

Abundant Japanese Wireweed (Sargassum muticum)

Bullfrogs threaten B.C. ecosystems

Thousands of small seabirds wash up on West Coast in die-off mystery

Ocean acidity wipes out 10 million scallops near Qualicum Beach

Latest IHN outbreak forces cull at Millar Channel fish farm

Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) swallowing sand and pebbles

Too Many Sea Otters?

‘Receding before our eyes:’ Vancouver Island glaciers likely to be all gone by mid-century

‘A lot of salmon died’: Ahousaht Guardians look to watershed restoration amid B.C.’s dangerously dry summer

‘It’s pretty dire’: Vancouver Island salmon under threat from climate change-induced droughts

Early birds: Photographer spots Brant geese down-Island ahead of usual PQB return