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  • Ocean Wise
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    • Failure to Lunch

      Ocean Wise
      August 11, 2019
      Aquablog, Ocean Wise, Ocean Wise Seafood
    Recent

    • Defining Waste in Fisheries Part 1: Harvest Waste

      Ocean Wise
      September 17, 2020

    • The Role of Small-Scale Fisheries

      Ocean Wise
      September 10, 2020

    • Lorsque les rivières rencontrent l’océan

      Ocean Wise
      August 26, 2020

    • Where Rivers Meet the Ocean

      Ocean Wise
      August 26, 2020

    • Indigenous Clam Gardens

      Ocean Wise
      August 21, 2020

    • How Your Choices Make Waves of Change

      Ocean Wise
      July 31, 2020
  • Marine Mammal Rescue
    Random

    • Long-term Care Begins for Sea Otter

      Marine Mammal Rescue
      August 3, 2012
      Marine Mammal Rescue
      2
    Recent

    • Ocean Wise recognizes top ‘whale reporters’ of 2019

      Ocean Wise
      July 21, 2020

    • Urgent call for help to re-open Marine Mammal Rescue Centre

      Ocean Wise
      June 8, 2020

    • Seal-ed with a kiss: Couples wild about volunteering spend quality time at Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre

      Ocean Wise
      February 14, 2020

    • New TV series will feature the work of Ocean Wise Marine Mammal Rescue team

      Ocean Wise
      January 30, 2020

    • ‘Berni’ the tropical sea turtle slowly warms to new MMRC environment

      Ocean Wise
      October 4, 2019

    • Rescued Northern sea otter Tazlina jets in from Alaska

      Ocean Wise
      September 9, 2019
      3
  • Vancouver Aquarium
    Random

    • Narwhal 2013: Kicking off an Arctic Adventure

      Vancouver Aquarium
      August 14, 2013
      Vancouver Aquarium
    Recent

    • Vancouver Aquarium Transformation

      Sarah Ellam
      August 31, 2020

    • Artists for Ocean Wise – new colouring app in support of Vancouver Aquarium

      Ocean Wise
      July 22, 2020

    • Show your Love by Sponsoring an Animal at the Vancouver Aquarium

      Vancouver Aquarium
      July 20, 2020

    • Vancouver Aquarium Extended Hours – Saturdays and Sundays this summer!

      Ocean Wise
      July 15, 2020

    • Vancouver Aquarium to re-open on Friday, June 26!

      Ocean Wise
      June 22, 2020

    • Urgent call for help to re-open Marine Mammal Rescue Centre

      Ocean Wise
      June 8, 2020
  • Ocean Wise Seafood
    Random

    • Fairmont's RawBar - YVR's First 100% Ocean Wise Sushi

      Ocean Wise
      March 12, 2014
      Ocean Wise Seafood
    Recent

    • Defining Waste in Fisheries Part 1: Harvest Waste

      Ocean Wise
      September 17, 2020

    • The Role of Small-Scale Fisheries

      Ocean Wise
      September 10, 2020

    • Lorsque les rivières rencontrent l’océan

      Ocean Wise
      August 26, 2020

    • Where Rivers Meet the Ocean

      Ocean Wise
      August 26, 2020

    • Indigenous Clam Gardens

      Ocean Wise
      August 21, 2020

    • How Your Choices Make Waves of Change

      Ocean Wise
      July 31, 2020
  • Education
    Random

    • AquaCamps Are Back – and Better than Ever!

      Public Relations
      March 13, 2013
      Education, Vancouver Aquarium
    Recent

    • Where are they now? Catching up with Ocean Bridge alum Aira Sarmiento

      Ocean Wise
      July 24, 2020

    • Artists for Ocean Wise – new colouring app in support of Vancouver Aquarium

      Ocean Wise
      July 22, 2020

    • Ocean Wise is celebrating ‘World Oceans Day’ for the entire month of June!

      Ocean Wise
      June 3, 2020
    • A mother and her son pose in front of the webcam after discussing their positive experience with Ocean Wise's online learning virtual classes about marine life.

      Mateo’s Deep Dive: An Online Learning Adventure

      Ocean Wise
      May 12, 2020
      1

    • Winnipegger on guard for oceans: Ocean Bridge’s Kirsten Desorcy profiled in Manitoba newspaper

      Ocean Wise
      May 3, 2020

    • Kids at home? Online Oceans Launches just in time to Save Parents (and help the ocean)

      Ocean Wise
      March 30, 2020
  • Arctic
    Random

    • Sea Ice is the Great Connector

      Arctic Connections
      September 7, 2012
      Arctic Connections
    Recent

    • Quiet Oceans: Has the COVID-19 crisis reduced noise in whale habitats?

      Ocean Wise
      April 11, 2020
      2

    • Pilot Program Conducts Ocean Plastics Workshop with Youth from Nunavut’s Pond Inlet

      Ocean Wise
      October 4, 2019

    • Diving in the Arctic Unknown

      Ocean Wise
      August 22, 2018

    • Innovation in the High Arctic

      Ocean Wise
      August 14, 2018

    • Wild Canadian Coastlines 

      Ocean Wise
      June 29, 2018
      1

    • Celebrating Ice Algae on Polar Bear Day

      Ocean Wise
      February 27, 2018
  • Shoreline Cleanup
    Featured
    • New Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup video highlights issue of shoreline litter. Register this fall at ShorelineCleanup.ca.

      Startling Video Brings New Meaning to Shoreline Litter

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      September 3, 2013
      Shoreline Cleanup, Videos
    Recent

    • Clean Shoreline Communities: municipalities as leaders in the fight against plastic pollution

      Ocean Wise
      July 31, 2020

    • Ocean Wise applauds Government of Canada’s commitment to protect 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030

      Ocean Wise
      July 21, 2020

    • #TeamShoreline needs your help reaching one million citizens by September

      Ocean Wise
      July 13, 2020

    • Ocean Wise is celebrating ‘World Oceans Day’ for the entire month of June!

      Ocean Wise
      June 3, 2020

    • Seeing our shorelines through a different lens

      Ocean Wise
      May 5, 2020
      1

    • United for Shoreline

      Ocean Wise
      January 30, 2020
  • Ocean Wise Research
    Random
    • Coastal Ocean Research Institute

      The Sinking of the HMCS Annapolis

      Vancouver Aquarium
      May 15, 2015
      Research Site - CORI
    Recent

    • Below the surface: the impacts of COVID-19 on marine mammals

      Ocean Wise
      September 14, 2020

    • Online lecture series honours 25th annual Ocean Award winners

      Ocean Wise
      September 14, 2020

    • One ringed seal claw; Years of data on mercury exposure

      Marine Mammal Research
      August 27, 2020

    • Tracking Contaminants in Killer Whale Habitats

      Sarah Wilson
      August 20, 2020

    • What’s in a name? Studying the calls of wild belugas

      Marine Mammal Research
      August 10, 2020

    • And the Award for Top Cetacean Reporter Goes To…

      Wild Whales
      July 23, 2020
  • Whale Sightings
    Random

    • Another Great Year of Sightings: Part I

      Wild Whales
      December 21, 2011
      Whale Sightings
    Recent

    • The BCCSN Welcomes BC Ferries to the Whale Trail

      Sarah Wilson
      September 10, 2020

    • And the Award for Top Cetacean Reporter Goes To…

      Wild Whales
      July 23, 2020

    • Ocean Wise recognizes top ‘whale reporters’ of 2019

      Ocean Wise
      July 21, 2020

    • Unexpected Urban Whales: City Slicker Cetaceans Sighted During Coronavirus

      Wild Whales
      July 14, 2020

    • A Mother’s Love: Killer Whale Culture

      Marine Mammal Research
      May 8, 2020

    • Quiet Oceans: Has the COVID-19 crisis reduced noise in whale habitats?

      Ocean Wise
      April 11, 2020
      2

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Butt Out 

Ocean Wise
August 16, 2018
Ocean Wise, Shoreline Cleanup, Vancouver Aquarium
UBC researchers analyzed data from 1,226 Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanups between 2013 and 2016 and recently announced a major discovery: 50 per cent of the waste recovered during cleanups of Vancouver and Vic...
Terracycle recycle cigarette butts from Canadian shorelines.

Getting Butts Off Our Beaches with TerraCycle

Vancouver Aquarium
August 5, 2014
Shoreline Cleanup
TerraCycle and Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited, began working together in 2012, and with the help of over 58,000 volunteers annually, have recycled over 460,000 cigarette...

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