BC Bear Day at Capilano University

A few years ago we began hosting an International Bear Day with Capilano University and the North Shore Black Bear Society with the intention of drawing more attention to the conservation of bears in all the places they occur. We now have an event with multiple community partners all supporting conservation efforts and initiatives that can benefit British Columbia’s Bears.

Sunday September 22, 2019

Pipe Shop at the Shipyards
Lower Lonsdale, North Vancouver

Presented by Capilano University’s EarthWorks, the North Shore Black Bear Society, and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation.

Free family afternoon

11 am to 4 pm

• Music from the Wilds
• Bear School with the Raincoast Conservation Foundation
• Bear Essentials with the North Shore Black Bear Society
• Adventures in wildlife photography with Ian Harland
• Gyotaku fish printing
• Animal drawings by Sandra Seekins
• Face painting
• Bear yoga
• BC bear photography exhibit

Evening speakers and discussion

6pm to 8pm

• Takaya Dancers
• Douglas Neasloss, bear guide, cultural interpreter, and stewardship director, Kitasoo/Xai’Xais First Nation
• Panel discussion: Living with bears, The need to co-exist

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Community partners

• Ancient Forest Alliance,
• Bluewater Adventures,
• Capilano University,
• the Commercial Bear Viewing Association,
• Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society,
• Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative,
• Earthworks,
• Earnest Ice Cream,
• Fur Bearers Association,
• Grizzly Bear Initiative,
• Grizzly Bear Foundation,
• Lighthouse Park Preservation Society,
• North Shore Black Bear Society,
• Patagonia Vancouver,
• Pacific Salmon Foundation,
• Watershed Watch

You can help

Raincoast’s in-house scientists, collaborating graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors make us unique among conservation groups. We work with First Nations, academic institutions, government, and other NGOs to build support and inform decisions that protect aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and the wildlife that depend on them. We conduct ethically applied, process-oriented, and hypothesis-driven research that has immediate and relevant utility for conservation deliberations and the collective body of scientific knowledge.

We investigate to understand coastal species and processes. We inform by bringing science to decision-makers and communities. We inspire action to protect wildlife and wildlife habitats.