There’s an abiding truth about conservation–no matter how much we may want it to be about the living world beyond humankind, inevitably it gets down to the things that people do and don’t do. Staggering…
Depth – Stories of Science & Data
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Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) comes in for a boatload of criticism. Its job is to conduct science to predict the potential impacts of possible management strategies in Canadian waters, and then, in…
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For a man who begins a conversation by saying pessimistic things, Professor Daniel Pauly is remarkably good company. Not all of the interviews we do for Sealives are prearranged, many are serendipitous. An arrangement is…
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Dark Forces and Bright Horizons – The Realpolitik of Ocean Conservation at a Macro Level
by Jason MurphyThe Good Ship UBC The University of British Columbia (UBC) could almost be a ship, poised as it is on the promontory forming the southern shore of Burrard Inlet, the expanse of water where the…
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Dr. Mimi E. Lam is out to prove that for people, some things are more important than money and not just in the philosophical sense. It’s a principle that she thinks should be built into our decision-making and our economy at a structural level, and that if it were, the world would be a better place.
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Jessica Torode-Scott fell in love with marine biology in general, and killer whales in particular, at an early age. When she was small, her parents would take her to visit Vancouver Aquarium and she would…