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  1. A Look At The Iconic Wildlife At Great Bear Rainforest

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  2. Visit The Great Bear Rainforest • British Columbia Magazine

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  3. Discover BC's Great Bear Rainforest

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  4. Eco-tourism and adventure in the Great Bear Rainforest

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  5. How to Visit the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia

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  6. Canada's Great Bear Rainforest

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  1. How to Visit the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia

    What to Do in the Great Bear Rainforest. From Bella Coola, head out on a wildlife-viewing safari with Bella Coola Grizzly Tours, or go on a boat ride through glacial fjords to a natural hot springs, where you can have a soak before tucking into a barbecue lunch.From Tweedsmuir Park Lodge, go heli-hiking in the Bella Coola Valley, take a guided nature walk, go birdwatching, or simply float down ...

  2. Great Bear Rainforest

    The Great Bear Rainforest is a land of fjords, islands and great river estuaries. It's world's largest intact temperate rainforest. ... Maple Leaf Adventures is a pioneer of tourism in the Great Bear Rainforest, having designed tours here starting in 1991 and advocated for its protection. 3 Seasons in the Great Bear Rainforest.

  3. The Complete Travel Guide to Great Bear Rainforest

    The Great Bear Rainforest is home to a variety of wildlife, including iconic Spirit Gear, Grizzly Bears, Sea Lions, Sea Otters, Humpback and Killer Whales, and more. The rainforest spans over 16 million acres, which is equivalent in size to Ireland and is a popular destination for both tourists and scientists alike.

  4. Visit the Great Bear Rainforest

    Visit the Great Bear Rainforest. A visit to the Great Bear Rainforest involves many different experiences. You may see the entirety of this special place from the air, or sail along the coastline by sea. The pace is slow, allowing visitors to take their time to adjust to its rhythms, intricacies, and seasonal changes. Hike, sail, fly in and out.

  5. Great Bear Rainforest

    The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest coastal temperate rainforest in the world, boasting more than six million hectares (16 million acres). The area's incredible biodiversity is protected to maintain its ecological integrity, including 1,000-year-old spruce and cedar trees. The rainforest is home to the Kermode, or "Spirit" bear, a ...

  6. Great Bear Lodge

    From early May through October, Great Bear Nature Tours offers grizzly bear viewing excursions from Port Hardy to a beautiful river valley on the central coast of British Columbia. Known as the Great Bear Rainforest, this area is one of the best places in the world to observe grizzly (brown) bears and many other forms of wildlife including ...

  7. A quick guide to the Great Bear Rainforest

    The Kermode (Spirit) bear, a subspecies of black bear with a white coat and British Columbia's provincial mammal, is found almost exclusively in the Great Bear Rainforest. There are likely fewer than 400 of these rare bears in existence. National Geographic named the Great Bear Rainforest one of its "Best Trips" in 2013.

  8. Home

    Founded in 2001, Spirit Bear Lodge attracts visitors from around the world looking to explore The Great Bear Rainforest in search of wildlife, culture and intact ecosystems. Spirit Bear Lodge, owned and operated by the Kitasoo Xai'xais First Nation, has become a successful model for conservation-based eco-tourism and has helped strengthen ...

  9. Great Bear Rainforest Tours

    Norm Hann started working as an adventure guide in the Great Bear Rainforest over 20 years ago. His passion for the people and the place grew quickly since then. In 2006 he was given the ultimate coastal honour of being adopted into the Raven Clan, and named T'aam Laan meaning "Steersman of the Canoe.". In 2010, Norm decided to paddle the ...

  10. Canada's Great Bear Rainforest Is Home to the Rarest Bear ...

    A 90-minute flight from Vancouver, B.C., the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest coastal temperate rainforest left on Earth. Grizzlies, black bears, white bears, wolves, whales, salmon, and bald ...

  11. Great Bear Rainforest

    The Great Bear Rainforest is a temperate rain forest on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, comprising 6.4 million hectares. It is part of the larger Pacific temperate rainforest ecoregion, which is the largest coastal temperate rainforest in the world.. The Great Bear Rainforest was officially recognized by the Government of British Columbia in February 2016, when it announced an agreement ...

  12. Grizzly Bear Viewing Tours in the Great Bear Rainforest, Knight Inlet Lodge

    Grizzly Bear Viewing & Whale Watching. Knight Inlet Lodge offers unique spring-to-fall grizzly bear tours and seasonal marine and whale watching tours during your 4 to 6 night stay at our west coast-style floating lodge. Choose from a range of options to see bears and marine wildlife in one of the most magnificent natural settings in the world ...

  13. Great Bear Rainforest

    Great Bear Rainforest. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calls the Great Bear Rainforest "the planet's last large expanse of coastal temperate rain forest." Stretching for more than 250 miles along the ...

  14. The Great Bear Rainforest Tour & Cruise

    Join us on-board the National Geographic Venture as we cruise into the pristine wilderness known as the Great Bear Rainforest to see diverse wildlife. 8 Days / 7 Nights

  15. Grizzly Bear Viewing Tours In The Great Bear Rainforest

    Welcome Aboard! Bella Coola grizzly Tours & Adventure Resort offers fully guided wildlife viewing tours to the east and west of Bella Coola. This area is commonly known as the Great Bear Rainforest. With over half a century of year round commercial operations on the central coast of British Columbia and a perfect land and sea safety record, the ...

  16. Indigenous-led Sustainable Tourism in Great Bear Rainforest

    For the past 17 years, I've had the incredible pleasure of boating, fishing, working, filming and cruising the Great Bear Rainforest. During those early years with Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Tourism Association and myriad television and film production, Great Bear wasn't even a concept born and British Columbia Central Coast was the moniker commonly used for the coastal stretch from Hartley ...

  17. Bella Coola BC

    Today's population of roughly 900 thrives on tourism, fishing, logging, and has become a full-service hub for the area. Bella Coola harbour is the grand entrance to the 64,000km2/24,710mi2 Great Bear Rainforest and is the only port between Vancouver and Prince Rupert providing road access to the Interior of B.C.

  18. The Great Bear Rainforest

    The Great Bear Rainforest is an internationally significant conservation model driven by Indigenous communities, supported by philanthropist driven conservation funding, and benefitting from tourism as part of an evolving conservation economy. The three big concepts that are, and could be further shared around the world are:

  19. Tour the Great Bear Rainforest

    Water Adventures: guided boating tours, whale watching, ocean kayak adventures, even ocean paddleboarding fun is available in this part of the Central Coast. Wildlife Viewing and EcoTours: Bear viewing, bird watching, whale watching. So many majestic creatures populate the central coast region. Part 3

  20. Great Bear Rainforest

    In between, we'll explore a diversity of channels, inlets, islands and beaches throughout the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. August 28 - September 4 2024. These dates align with the salmon spawning season, increasing our chances of finding fishing Black Bears, Spirit Bears and Grizzly Bears. It's also prime time for Humpback Whales and ...

  21. Tour Operators

    The list also includes tour operators located in Campbell River, Kitimat, Port McNeill, Quadra Island and Vancouver. Though the home base for each of these tour operators is not in the Great Bear Rainforest, tours are offered within the region. + Bella Bella ("Waglisla"; Heiltsuk Territory) + Bella Coola (Nuxalk Territory) + Campbell River ...

  22. Sustainable Tourism In the Great Bear Rainforest

    Tourism. Spirit Bear Lodge is located in Klemtu BC, a remote community that has been home to the Kitasoo/Xai'xais people since the glaciers of the last ice age started to retreat about 15,000 years ago. The Kitasoo/Xai'xais people have always been stewards of this land we now call The Great Bear Rainforest, they learned long ago that if you ...

  23. Great Bear Rainforest Tours

    Great Bear Rainforest Tours. Sail into the Great Bear Rainforest and see the all-white spirit bear! See grizzlies, black bears and humpback whales and learn from native Kitasoo & Gitga'at guides and explore saltwater estuaries. Islands and intricate waterways beneath towering mountains... lush, coastal temperate forests... wilderness alive with ...

  24. 10 Largest Forests In The World (& Why You Should Visit Them)

    Situated on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada, the Great Bear Rainforest is an ideal destination for nature lovers who want to explore one of the largest forests in the world.