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The Grizzly Bear Necessities
Seaside Times By Chris Genovali 2008 ranked as one of the worst years for salmon returns on British Columbia’s central coast and the ‘silent fall’ I experienced there last year, while not surprising...
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Grizzly Details: Salmon Collapse Could Be Bad News for Bears
Scientific American By Anne Casselman Scientists are collecting hairs from live bears to prevent population declines as a result of declines in a principal food source: salmon For most of May, Chris...
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The black and white world of spirit bears
By Chris Genovali Seaside Times, December Issue The spirit bear’s white fur chest was covered in bright red blood, as if he’d been spattered with paint. The blood red dye job was from the all the...
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Take Action!! ‘Control kills’ of grizzlies out of control.
Bella Coola grizzly bears need your voice. Send a letter to Environment Minister Barry Penner. A disturbing number of grizzly bears are being shot as ‘control kills’ in BC’s Bella Coola valley. Most...
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Close Encounters of the Black Bear Kind
Seaside Times January 2010 By Chris Genovali, Executive Director, Raincoast Conservation Foundation The black bear poked his head around the big cedar stump and we stared at each other for a moment. I...
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Protecting bears by buying hunting rights
Raincoast has a purchase agreement for its second commercial hunting territory in the Great Bear Rainforest, specifically in the home of the spirit bear. This purchase will expand our existing hunting...
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Raincoast to purchase Spirit Bear hunting territory
Last year, Raincoast began negotiations to acquire a very unique hunting territory – the primary place where spirit bears roam. Despite a restriction on killing spirit bears, trophy hunting of black...
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If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em
Raincoast has a track record with big ideas. In a move that garnered worldwide attention, we purchased an exclusive 24,700 km2 hunting license for $1.3 million in 2005. Our purchase ended commercial...
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Help Raincoast end the trophy hunt
IMAGINE if your conservation investment could go directly to protecting the lives of wild animals, now and forever. In 2005, our supporters helped us purchase a vast hunting territory and end...
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Spirit Bear Hunting Territory: August Update
Thank you so very much for your generous support of this project. We want to inform you that we have raised the purchase price and the closing costs for the acquisition. We are in the process of...
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Spirit bear hunting territory: January update
In 2011, Raincoast purchased a second commercial hunting tenure. Frustrating and unnecessary government delays have prevented us from being able to announce this successful aquisition. However, in...
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3,500 sq km guide outfitting tenure now owned by conservation group Bella Bella, British Columbia – On the heels of the coastal First Nations’ declaration opposing the hunting of grizzly and black...
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Conservation group buys hunting rights
A group adamantly opposed to trophy hunting of grizzly and black bears has bought the commercial hunting rights in a vast area of the Great Bear Rainforest. by Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist The...
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