Near Bamfield

	Ocean / Sea	28
	Fish	23
	Surface Waters / Wetlands	15
	Weather	15
	Unusual Range / Sighting	13
	Drought	11
	Human Health	10
	Marine Mammals	9
	Death / Die-off / Decline	8
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	Invertebrates	8
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	Microbes	7
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	Land	6
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	Water Security	5
	Air	4
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	Buildings	4
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	Land Mammals	1
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	Cyclone / Hurricane	1
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90,000 without power, ferries cancelled as storm batters Vancouver Island

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

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

Sea cucumber die-off near Vancouver Island

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

Humpback whales numbers swell in the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Juvenile grey whale caught on camera in Nanoose Bay

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

Hybrid salmon discovered by scientists on Vancouver Island

Poisonous porcupine fish arrives on Island shores — a B.C. first

Hypothermic tropical sea turtle rescued from waters near Port Alberni

Declining Snow and Summer Rain in the Alberni Valley

Invasive Asian giant hornets found on Vancouver Island

Lake water to be pumped into B.C. river due to severe drought

Guadalupe Murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus) off Tofino

Booming anchovy population helps salmon, orcas

Sea Lice Plagues Return and Threat to Wild Salmon Increases

Rare white ‘ghost orca’ spotted near Nanaimo

Extreme weather sparks large die off of Cedar on Vancouver Island

Climate change effects obvious on Cowichan River, wildfire season

Trees Broken, Uprooted, Toppled by Wind

Windstorm and Widespread Forest Blowdown

Hurricane force winds recorded near Tofino

The warm-water blob is back off the B.C. coast

Drought has volunteers walking Cowichan Lake area’s dry rivers and creek-beds looking for stranded fish fry

White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) in Port Renfrew

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

California Quail (Callipepla californica) Expanding Poleward

Shifting species composition of sealions at Hornby Island

Vancouver Island cholera outbreak 'a unique situation,' health officials say

Cholera found in herring eggs from Oceanside area

Ahousaht Harbor: Swimming Hole Monitoring

Chordgrass (Spartina sp.) eradication at Goose Spit

Paper Mill Dam: Swimming Hole Monitoring

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

No assurance that water in Cowichan River now will help with summer drought

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

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

B.C.'s Cowichan River in danger of drying up

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