Representing one quarter of the world’s remaining coastal temperate rainforest, the Great Bear Rainforest stretches along the mainland coast of British Columbia to the Alaska border, covering an area the size of Switzerland.

This largely intact rainforest is tucked amongst majestic mountain fjords creating a cool, misty world with soft carpets of moss and a biomass (weight of organic matter) four times greater than comparable areas in the Amazon jungle.

The forest provides habitat for a variety of species, including:

• towering cedar, fir and spruce trees
• wild runs of salmon
• soaring eagles
• coastal wolves
• delicate green ferns
• marbled murrelet sea birds

Grizzly, black and spirit bears call this forest home

But it is the bears that give this forest its name. Grizzly bears, black bears and the elusive Kermode or spirit bear, a rare white variation of the black bear, all thrive in this lush rainforest.

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