The Kermode bear (Ursus americanus kermodei) is a subspecies of the North American black bear that is only found on the Central and Northern coasts of British Columbia. Within the subspecies ...

The white Kermode bear, a rare ursa sacred to local tribes, is now the center of a fierce battle to protect British Columbia’s rainforest. Melissa Groo Very quietly we paddle to shore in a raft ...

"We never even spoke of the spirit bear at the dinner table," Clifton says. Ranging across British Columbia’s north coast, Kermode bears cluster on Princess Royal Island and Gribbell Island ...

Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia, the 21-million-acre ... cream-colored Kermode bear, or sprit bear, considered sacred by the T'simshian people.

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 ...