Pender Harbour Coastal Waters Monitoring Program

About

The Loon Foundation’s philosophy is to ignite connections between people and the natural world and to foster and encourage responsible stewardship of our natural resources for future generations.
The Loon Foundation has been conducting extensive long-term environmental monitoring in the northern Salish Sea and throughout the coastal waters of Pender Harbour for many years. Long-term monitoring acts as an effective early-warning system that sets a firm baseline from which we can gauge when significant changes are occurring in different aquatic ecosystems. Once we identify trends from this data, we can establish more detailed research initiatives to better understand what is causing the change and how we can best address it. In particular we focus on ecological responses to climate change, anthropogenic effects on biodiversity, and strategies to preserve habitats and species at risk and ensure sustainable and productive coastal ecosystems.

Areas monitored