Less than 400 of these rare bears exist, and their largest numbers are found in the Great Bear Rainforest.
The Nature Conservancy recently led and completed a successful fundraising campaign in support of historic land use agreements in the Great Bear Rainforest. As a result of these agreements, 5 million acres of the rainforest are now off limits to logging and more than 19 million acres are under strict land management guidelines called ecosystem based management.
Spirit Bears are the offspring of Black Bears with double recessive genes so they are cream coloured. They are found only in the Great Bear Rain Forest about 300 miles to the north of Vancouver in British Columbia on the west coast of Canada.
Short video about the peril of the "Spirit Bear" or Kermode Black Bear and the one place on Earth that it lives, The Great Bear Rainforest along the pacific coast of Canada.
Both hunting and commercial fish farms pose a serious threat to this unique animal. Learn what you can do and who you can contact to make a difference.
Starring grizzlies, eagles, humpback whales, and the legendary spirit bear! In 2010 Vancouver filmmaker Damien Gillis joined two separate week-long journeys by boat through BC's Great Bear Rainforest. This magical place is threatened by Enbridge's proposal to bring an oil pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands and supertankers to BC's North and Central coast - Gillis was filming for his recently released short documentary, "Oil in Eden." This 4 min film captures the highlights of that experience - featuring breathtaking, never-before-seen footage of the Great Bear Rainforest!
On the mainland coast of British Colombia, the Great Bear Rainforest stretches for more than 250 miles and it is part of the largest remaining coastal temperate rainforest on Earth.
Highlights from recent Vancouver events held to showcase the work of the International League of Conservation photographers in the Great Bear Rainforest. Some of the world's top nature photographers journeyed this month to the north an and central coast of Canada to capture its incomparable yet fragile beauty - now threatened by a proposal from Enbridge to bring an oil pipeline from the Tar Sands and supertankers to BC's wild coast.
Enbridge wants to build its Northern Gateway pipeline that will carry more than half a million barrels of crude oil a day for Alberta's tar sands to Kitimat where it will be loaded onto supertankers bound for Asia. That's over 200 supertankers eacy year, loaded with crude oil sailing through important fishing grounds, critical whale habitiat and the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest.