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The Great Bear Rainforest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unspoiled temperate rainforest left in the world. [14] The area is home to species such as cougars, wolves, salmon, grizzly bears, and the Kermode ("spirit") bear, a unique subspecies of the black bear, in which one in ten cubs displays a recessive white coloured coat.
The Heiltsuk "territory is located at the heart" of the largest intact old-growth forest in the world, the Great Bear Rainforest. The Great Bear Rainforest was officially recognized by the Government of British Columbia in February 2016, [11] [12] and is Canada's contribution to the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy (QCC), a unique indigenous forest ...
Along with the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia designated as the Great Bear Rainforest, the Tongass is part of the "perhumid rainforest zone", and the forest is primarily made up of western red cedar, sitka spruce, and western hemlock. The Tongass is Earth's largest remaining temperate rainforest.
Great Bear Rainforest, Canada. One of the largest temperate rainforests in the world, Great Bear Rainforest covers a vast area the size of Ireland that’s rife with rugged beauty along its ...
In 2016 McAllister presented a talk, "Conservation in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest" at the TEDxBrentwoodCollegeSchool event. McAllister's film Great Bear Rainforest: Land of the Spirit Bear, shot for IMAX and Giant Screen theatres, was released internationally in 2019. [5] Ian McAllister resigned as executive director of Pacific Wild on Aug ...
Federal funding has been committed to protect the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, which is a quarter of the Earth's remaining ancient coastal temperate rainforests. [35] Phase-out of a federal tax subsidy to oil sands companies, as well as growing support for a moratorium on new Alberta tar sands projects. [36] 2006
The Great Bear Rainforest in Canada is home to the rare white variant of the black bear known as the Kermode bear, also known colloquially as the "spirit bear." The endangered spotted owl was at the center of logging controversies in Oregon and Washington.
Great Bear River, a river fed by Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada; Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia; Great Bear Recreation Park, a ski hill in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Great Bear Wilderness area in Montana; Great Bear (band), a contra dance band; Great Bear (Radium line) a tugboat built and operated by the Radium line