Take action / get involved
Check out the SCCA event calendar for Sunshine Coast Conservation Association activities and campaigns. Subscribe to SCCA newsletter to get email notifications of SCCA events and activities.
Marine conservation
Ocean Wise. 124 Ways you can make an impact.
Salish Sea Cetaceans
Take action for Southern Residents! Send a letter and/or make a call to decision makers. Ask them to create a legacy that prioritizes biodiversity, transparent and science-based decision-making, Indigenous leadership, and the long-term health of the Salish Sea. Enough is enough. No pipeline, port, or industrial project should come at the cost of extinction. Georgia Strait Alliance Orca Protection.
Send a sighting. Save a whale! Mobile and desktop app to report whale sightings. Everyone can report whale sightings, and operators of large commercial vessels—such as ferries, tugs, cruise ships, freighters, and government vessels—can apply for access to real-time whale alerts via the Whale Report App.
BC Cetaceans Sighting Network All about whale activity along the coast, including info about how to report a sighting, and blog posts about recent activity, including The WhaleReport alert system.
Marine Education & Research Society (MERS) Contribute data. Collecting whale sightings is essential in increasing our understanding of everything from survival, age of calving, site fidelity, feeding strategies, areas of whale density, range, entanglement rates, etc.
Humpback Whales of the Salish Sea is an ongoing photo identification project, dedicated to better understanding the Humpback Whales documented within the Salish Sea and western entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait.
Be Whale Wise informs you on the laws pertaining to marine mammals, as well as provides additional guidelines that will make you a safer boater and a steward of our natural resources.
IF you see tail, fin or spray – Stay far enough away
End Industrial Trawling In B.C.
Support Pacific Wild’s campaigns and activities to end industrial trawling.
Protect Howe Sound
Connect with My Sea to Sky to join advocacy actions to protect Howe Sound. Current campaigns include:
- Woodfibre IAAC amendment
- Woodfibre effluent amendment
Streamkeepers
The Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers Society works to protect wild salmon and their habitat. Find out how you can help rehabilitate wild salmon stocks and protect our beautiful creeks so we can enjoy them for generations to come!
Protect Forage Fish
Forage fish are super-abundant schooling fishes such as herring, anchovy, sand lance, surf smelt, sardine, capelin and eulachon. Sunshine Coast Friends of Forage Fish collects spawning data on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia beaches and is always looking for more volunteers.
Report dead boats and marine debris
The Dead Boats Disposal Society actively provides research, education, inventory, removal, assessment, remediation, and disposal of dead boats and marine debris from our shores in British Columbia, Canada
Forage Fish and Chinook Salmon
Contact Dr. Will Duguid willduguid@hotmail.com, to volunteer with the UVic Adult Salmon Diet Program.
Eelgrass
Contact Dr. Susan Anthony of the SeaChange Marine Conservation Society to get involved with their Resilient Estuaries of the Salish Sea project. Help SeaChange identify critical estuarine habitats and rank their resiliency in the face of climate change.
Help stop eelgrass bed damage. SeaChange Marine Conversation Society – Sea floor friendly mooring system (video).
Dungeness Crabs
Contact Heather Earle, a marine ecologist with the Hakai Institute to engage with the Sentinels of Change project, help monitor nearshore ecosystems and track change with projects such as Adopt a Light Trap.
Kelp
Contact Lee Ann Ennis vitalkelp@gmail.com to get involved with her kelp bed restoration projects. Follow Lee-Ann on Twitter.
Download the Seaweed Sorter. Pacific Northwest Edition. Patrick Martone.
APPLE APP, in the App Store.
Also available from Google Play.
Join the Kelp Forest Challenge.
Help save the kelp forests: anyone can get involved, it doesn’t matter if you are a snorkeller, CEO, scientist, artist, Prime Minister, or ocean lover you can join the movement.