Save the great bears
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.
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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 [icon icon=”external-link”] 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 [icon icon=”external-link”].
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