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Notes, details, updates and miscellaneous thoughts.
There’s one week left and everyone at Raincoast is hoping that if you haven’t already entered our contest, you will before July 1st. You can help us stop the killing of bears, and you can win a ten day trip in the Great Bear Rainforest…
This study represents a decade of work covering an area reaching 1000km into BC and provides resource managers – Indigenous and Western alike – with dietary information from hundreds of bears across thousands of square kilometres, shedding light on the ecological interconnections of ecology in the expansive bear-salmon-human system…
July 1st is still a ways away but we want to make sure you know how easy it is help us Save the Great Bears and enter to win a trip onboard the Achiever. There are three easy steps…
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…