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Notes, details, updates and miscellaneous thoughts.
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…
We are seeking a research assistant to join our our team for a temporary (3-month) summer contract to assist in engaging with local stewardship groups and to map salmon habitat in ArcGIS. This contract will be focused on identifying the potential for salmon habitat…
The hunt for Grizzly Bars is heating up and now is a good time for us to thank the many retail stores that have stepped up to sell Denman Island Chocolates’s Grizzly Bar. There are too many to name, so we made a map…
Looking for the Grizzly Bar? Our contest is over, but some Grizzly Bars are still out there. On July 1st, we drew the winner who won an epic trip with us on Achiever. Thanks everyone who participated! List of BC Locations List of locations elsewhere Amaranth Whole Foods, Calgary, St. AlbertDad’s Organic Market, SaskatoonPaper Pipit, Thornhill, ONSan…
People swarmed the Vic Theatre last night to watch Trophy a beautiful film by Inder Nirwan and Lush Cosmetics. This film explores trophy hunting of grizzly bears in BC…
Many people have donated and they’re entered into the contest to win a trip in the Great Bear Rainforest. Others have found the Grizzly Bar and posted on social media using the #GrizzlyBar hashtag…
Today we posted our comments on a petition to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States to establish a whale protection zone for Southern Resident killer whales…
Even when we aren’t having a contest for a free trip in the Great Bear Rainforest, we get questions about journeys in the Great Bear Rainforest. Thank you to everyone who is supporting our efforts to save the great bears. And thank you to Denman Island Chocolate for making this once in a lifetime trip…
20 killer whale scientists have signed a letter calling on the Canadian federal government to reduce noise levels in the Salish Sea and assist the recovery of Southern Resident killer whales…
The Grizzly Bar is in some stores that carry Denman Island Chocolate and others will be receiving their deliveries very soon. In the meantime, you should know that there’s another way…
We just wanted to let people know that the Grizzly Bar is ready and shipping and will be available very soon. It’s not going to be everywhere though. But there’s always options…
Denman Island Chocolate is helping us protect bears in the Great Bear Rainforest. They’ve made a new Grizzly Bar to support our work stopping the commercial trophy hunt. And they’ve generously created an opportunity for someone else to have an epic trip…