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Spirit Bear

This film offers a rare visit with the creatures in BC’s Great Bear Rainforest

GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST: Ryan Reynolds is the voice, the big name, the draw but the real star of this beautiful documentary is a white bear named Mox. She’s what the Indigenous people in this part of...
Jackie Hildering, Great Bear Rainforest, Great Bear Sea, Wondrous, Science World

'Wondrous' artists offer rare glimpse into remote Great Bear Rainforest

These beautiful images capture life in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, which may be at risk once again from the resurfacing Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.
Spirit bear mother and cub

B.C. says Great Bear Rainforest act enshrines co-existence in global treasure

VICTORIA — British Columbia has introduced legislation to halt logging in much of the Great Bear Rainforest, the world's largest intact temperate rainforest. Forests Minister Steve Thomson says often...

VO-National Observer open house Tuesday Sept. 29

Come by and view photographs by Andrew S. Wright and Mychaylo Prystupa and political illustrations by Victor Juhasz and Geoff Olson.

Kinder Morgan: Vancouver not ready for a major oil spill, experts warn

Vancouver would be woefully unprepared to face an oil sands tanker spill, federal regulators and experts say.

Southern Gateway: An American pipeline giant's plans for Vancouver

On a hot afternoon in July 2007, a worker started digging a new sewer line for the municipality of Burnaby, following instructions crafted from a chain of wrong assumptions. Before long, he punctured...

Oil threatens culture and wildlife in Gitga'at Nation's remote and beautiful territory

Rainforests, salmon and Spirit Bears: the isolated northern BC community of Hartley Bay provides an example of what's at stake when it comes to oil and gas.

Online petitions call for stop to Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project

The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline would endanger the Great Bear rainforest, home to wildlife such as the iconic Spirit Bear, said the creator of a new anti-pipeline petition.