New dietary study reveals salmon hotspots for grizzly and black bears across 700,000 square kilometres

New dietary study reveals salmon hotspots for grizzly and black bears across 700,000 square kilometres

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…

Grizzly bears have colonized unprotected islands in the Great Bear Rainforest: Media Release

Grizzly bears have colonized unprotected islands in the Great Bear Rainforest: Media Release

A collaboration of wildlife scientists from Raincoast, UVic and the Spirit Bear Research Foundation of the Kitisoo -Xais’ Xais’ Nation have published a study in the international peer-reviewed journal, PLOS ONE, documenting grizzly bears on the move to coastal islands.