Save the great bears

Photo by Brad Hill.
Help us bring a permanent end to commercial trophy hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest
Working with our Coastal First Nations partners, our goal is to acquire all remaining commercial hunting tenures in the Great Bear Rainforest. You can help us extinguish guided hunting.
Donate to Save the Great Bears
Your donation will help us buy out the next commercial hunting tenure, expanding the safe zone, and helping to bring a stop to the killing of bears in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Eat chocolate, win a trip (contest closed)
Denman Island Chocolate has stepped up to save bears and to give you a chance to win a trip in the Great Bear Rainforest.
A strategy with a proven track record
We have acquired the commercial trophy hunting rights in approximately 30,000 square kilometres of BC’s Great Bear Rainforest. We extinguish guided hunting when we purchase the tenures. Our ultimate goal is to protect bears and secure the rights to all commercial trophy hunting tenures on the BC coast. We now stand poised to complete the job.
Working with Coastal First Nations

Your support will help Raincoast and our Coastal First Nations partners end commercial trophy hunting in their territories.
Purchasing these tenures is one small part of the process of respecting the autonomy of First Nations communities in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Buying hunting territories, a permanent fix
As the only permanent solution to stopping the commercial trophy hunt appeared to be buying out hunting licenses, we began purchasing hunting rights in 2005. With your help we have given protection to bears from trophy hunting in three jurisdictions in the Great Bear Rainforest.
The Price of the Prize
This CBC documentary, by award winning filmmaker and journalist Brandy Yanchuk, can be livestreamed at CBC .
Help us finish the job

Our supporters
- African Wildlife Safaris
- Andrew S Wright
- April Bencze - Photographer
- Arc'teryx
- Audain Art Museum
- Audley Travel
- Bears and More - Klaus Pommerenke Photography
- Bluewater Adventures
- Bombay Bags
- Cetus Research & Conservation Society
- Cristina Mittermeier - Photographer
- David Suzuki Foundation
- Denman Island Chocolate
- Earth2Ocean
- Ecojustice
- Eric Sambol - Wildlife photographer
- First West Foundation
- Florent Nicolas
- Gitga'at Tourism
- Great Bear Nature Tours
- Green Mountain Aviation
- Gulf Islands Alliance
- Haglöf Sweden
- Hemp & Company
- High Road Clothing Co
- John E. Marriott
- Karen Cooper Gallery
- King Pacific Lodge
- Knight Inlet Lodge
- Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
- MakeWay
- Maple Leaf Adventures
- Mark Carwardine
- Mark Hobson
- Mary Winspear Centre
- Measure Accounting
- Mike Morash / One Island Media
- Mothership Adventures
- Mountain Equipment Co-op
- Mountaineers Foundation
- Natural Art Images, Brad Hill
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- Nature's Path
- Nimmo Bay Resort
- Norcross Wildlife Foundation
- Not Just Pretty
- Ocean Adventures
- Ocean Light II Adventures
- Ocean Wild Nature Shop & Expeditions
- Off Track Dog Training
- Outer shores Expeditions
- Patagonia
- Paul Morrison Photography
- Paul Nicklen - Photographer
- Real Estate Foundation British Columbia
- Salish Sea Chocolate Co.
- Sarah Armstrong Eco-Designs
- Seaside Times
- Sitka Society for Conservation
- SkeenaWild Conservation Trust
- Society for Conservation Biology
- Spirit Bear Coffee Company
- Spirit Bear Lodge
- Steppes Travel
- Tactics
- Tavish Campbell
- TD friends of the Environment
- TELUS Vancouver Community Board
- The Barraclough Foundation
- The Greygates Foundation
- The Hamber Foundation
- The Robert Bateman Centre
- The Wooden Salmon Co.
- Thrifty Foods
- Tide Rip Grizzly Tours
- UBC Rivers Inlet Ecosystem Study
- Vancouver Foundation
- Victoria Foundation
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- World Wildlife Fund
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