Safe and secure for now, the spirit bear recently gained additional protection when British Columbia made it an offense of up to $104,000 ($100,000 Canadian) to shoot a white bear anywhere in the ...

If you wish to see the extraordinary spirit bear for yourself, a trip to British Columbia may be in your future. You can experience beautiful hikes in British Columbia and visit the Great Bear ...

They are found only in British Columbia, where estimates of their ... then travelled for two hours by boat to the Spirit Bear Lodge, on Swindle Island, which supports a remote First Nations ...

She is a celebrity, an official animal of British Columbia, and the panda of Canada. That’s what the spirit bear has been called by the environmental groups that enlisted it in the battle to ...

Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia ... or sprit bear, considered sacred by the T'simshian people. (Spotting a spirit bear takes a lot of patience, even more ...

The First Nations people of British Columbia (BC), Canada, have for centuries revered the spirit bear, or Kermode bear, to be found in the Great Bear Rainforest – a vast, old-growth temperate ...

Kamloops residents can request a bear-resistant bin on the city's website. Akshay Kulkarni is an award-winning journalist who has worked at CBC British Columbia since 2021. Based in Vancouver ...