Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest

In the remote valleys of the Coast Range on Canada’s far western edge, the planet's oldest and tallest conifers rise along salmon-studded rivers that rush to the Pacific. Thousand-year-old cedars and Sitka spruce soaring 300 feet into the rain clouds provide shelter for the pale spirit bear of Native legend, just a few hundred of which live in this isolated wilderness. Here, too, are grizzlies and wolves, and bald eagles nest atop ancient conifers while deer and elk browse the undergrowth. Offshore, humpback whales and porpoises ply the jade-green fjords of British Columbia’s Inside Passage, while abundant salmon feed orcas and sea lions. The Great Bear Rainforest is the world's largest tract of mostly intact coastal temperate rainforest on Earth. Explore this awe-inspiring place with BC-born and based Eddy Savage, who reveals its intricate ecosystem and discusses recent conservation movements aimed at ensuring the future of this magnificent and at-risk wild realm.


Originally presented November 12, 2020

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