Help protect Spirit bears
The Kitasoo Xai’xais and Gitga’at Nations are proposing to close black bear hunting within their respective territories in a small area of the Great Bear Rainforest with the highest concentration of Spirit bears.
The Kitasoo Xai’xais and Gitga’at Nations are proposing to close black bear hunting within their respective territories in a small area of the Great Bear Rainforest with the highest concentration of Spirit bears.
This area is home to each of these large carnivores, in addition to grizzly bears and wolverines. Unfortunately, they can all (with the exception of grizzly bears) be legally hunted for sport. You can help me protect them…
CBC follows Raincoast and three coastal First Nations to find out why they oppose BC’s grizzly hunt and what they are doing to stop it.
As part of an effort to understand ocean currents, and how they would influence a potential oil spill, the Institute of Ocean Sciences teamed up with the Gitga’at First Nation and Raincoast to drop “drift bottles” into the Pacific Ocean.