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 ...

This can certainly be said of the elusive and striking Kermode bear, a rare species of black bear found only in British Columbia. What makes the Kermode bear so special, and how does it thrive ...

"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 ...

In the misty shadows of British Columbia’s ancient forests ... of a spirit gliding through the wilderness. This is the Kermode bear, more commonly known as the “spirit bear”—a living ...

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 ...