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    What it’s like to report in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest

    2011 August 92024 July 8

    Guest Blog by Anne Casselman at Scientific American.

    I land in the Great Bear Rainforest to hit the ground running to report a series of stories for Scientific American on local research on grizzly bears…

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  • 3 smiling trophy hunters kneel behind the dead grizzly they have killed.
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    The cruelest month for British Columbia’s coastal carnivores

    2011 April 262024 October 8

    For large carnivores in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest April marks the start of the spring recreational hunting season, and signals a time to start dodging bullets from “sportsmen” wielding high-powered rifles in search of “trophies.”

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    Winter in the Great Bear Rainforest

    2011 January 292024 July 8

    Check out these images of winter in the Great Bear Rainforest on BC’s central coast taken by Raincoast Field Station Manager and photographer Doug Brown…

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    Field Notes: Saving our bears

    2010 April 192024 July 8

    Outpost Magazine,  April 2010, by Chris Darimont In one of Nature’s most elegant pas de daux, salmon and bear engage in a delicate dance for survival.  The bear is losing… We’re searching for solutions to one of the most critical questions facing coastal B.C. today: how to guarantee grizzlies enough salmon to ensure their survival….

    Read More Field Notes: Saving our bearsContinue

  • An albino grizzly bear climbs rocks at the shore in the Great Bear Rainforest
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    Not your average bear

    2010 April 192024 July 8

    As Raincoast’s research vessel Achiever pulled into the inlet on British Columbia’s north coast I glassed the port side shoreline with my binoculars, checking for wildlife.  It was that magical time right before dusk when unexpected and unusual things often manifest in the coastal fall alpenglow.

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