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Reconciliation
Our values reflect the important work we all have to do to heal and walk towards a better way of treating each other.
Read MoreShop “Indigenous Made” this Christmas
Are you passionate about shopping local, supporting smaller businesses and artists? We are! So this year we searched for Indigenous owned shopping opportunities and wanted to share some of our favourites with you.
Read MoreSustainable Tourism In the Great Bear Rainforest
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 take care of the biosphere it will take care of you.
Read MorePacific Ocean Garbage Clean up in the Great Bear Rainforest
When tour operations went on hold due to Covid-19, Spirit Bear Lodge along with nine other wilderness tourism operators that work in the Great Bear Rainforest were part of a large coastal clean up effort.
Read MoreCoastal Herring and a Balanced Ecosystem
The herring and their eggs are so important to the Great Bear Rainforest ecosystem, feeding not only the giants of the sea, but also the small animals and birds along the shore.
Read MoreWildlife Photography – Transforming Ordinary into Extraordinary
Guide Jack Plant talks about finding stories and meaning behind the photos he takes.
Read MoreKnow Before you Go: Ethical Wildlife Viewing
A great guide is not one that gets you the closest to the wildlife, it is someone who can read wildlife behaviour and not comprise the animals well being.
Read MoreThe Comeback of the Humpbacks!
Humpbacks in this area were whaled intensely until the 1960’s. Over 40 harvested in 1965 alone. Hunted to near extinction.
Read MoreThe Great Bear Rainforest: Last of its kind
The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact temperate rainforest on the planet. But what does that mean? Or look like?
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