We invited Andrew Trites to join us for a Conversation That Matters about what is happening with the Southern Resident Orca Whale population.

To discuss what the shipping industry is doing to meet these concerns, issues, and regulations, we invited the President of the Chamber of Shipping, Robert Lewis-Manning, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about protecting our coastal waters.

Andrew Day, the past Executive Director of the Coastal Ocean Research Institute, which released its report card on Howe Sound, joins us this week on Conversations That Matter to share what we know, where are the gaps in our understanding and what the well-being of the Sound means to the south coast and the Salish Sea.

Everything you’ve heard about the oceans is true: the temperature is rising, acidification is increasing and sea levels are up. That is according to Dr. Scott Doney of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.