How can I help protect the Great Bear Rainforest?

Advocate protection and ecologically-based management practices to your government: Write to, phone or visit your MLA, write to Premier Gordon Campbell and let  your representatives know you want them to seize this once in a life time chance to protect part of Canadian's spectacular rainforest heritage and provide lasting economic solutions to create stable, healthy communities.  Click here to get your MLA's address and write them a letter. 

Be a responsible consumer:  Always ask for responsibly produced wood and paper products and give preference to recycled products, and those certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. Write to the CEOs of coastal logging companies and tell them you would like them to make Ecosystem-Based Management a reality, right now, on the ground. 

Visit group websites to see what they are doing to ensure the Great Bear is being protected: GP, ForestEthics, Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter, RAN.  Learn more about how you can make a difference.

How can I visit the Great Bear Rainforest?

The Great Bear Rainforest is most accessible by boat or air.  BC Ferries vehicle or passenger vessels travels from Port Hardy north to Prince Rupert with stops in Bella Bella and Klemtu, as well as west to Haida Gwaii. Numerous airlines fly to communities located in the Great Bear Rainforest. You can also get to Prince Rupert (North Coast) or Bella Coola (Central Coast) by driving.  Go to the links page for more information on travel to and from, in and around the Great Bear.

How did the Great Bear Rainforest get its name? How many kinds of bears can be found in this area?

The Great Bear Rainforest takes its name for the grizzly bears, black bears and Kermode (Spirit) bears that live there. The Great Bear Rainforest is home to one of the highest concentrations of coastal grizzly bear populations on North America's westcoast.

photos: Adrian Dorst (bannner), Marni Grossman (centre)