B.E.A.R.

Music inspired by the sacred beauty of Mother Earth and the people that protect it and guided by Great Spirit.

[standforthebear-blog]

'Bear I Am'- another track off of our new album 'Stand for the Bear' 

[ofpaperandponies]

Young Kermode bear in British Columbia’s coastal rainforest

Spirit bears (Kermodes) are a genetically recessive color mutation of brown bears. Due to hunting for over a century (they were never intentionally hunted prior to fur traders, by either First Nations or Native American tribes, according to tradition), the allele frequency of the gene fell significantly. Normally Kermode bears have no problems breeding and surviving in the coastal rainforests of the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver area of British Columbia. The current punishment for killing Kermodes is up to a $150,000 fine and jail time.

[greenwatching]

Spirit Bears

Also known as the Kermode Bear.

There are less than 400 individual white Kermode bears living in the Great Bear Rainforest of BC and Alaska.

I hope you will support the environmentalists that are against big oil. Yes, we could not live as comfortably as we do now without oil, but that is because we have been told that this is normal, we’ve been made to believe that there is no other option. That is why we need the system to change, we need to demand the government to support clean energy and make environmental health a priority because it will ensure everyone’s health in the future. Protecting the environment is the most selfless act we humans can do, and it is the most humane thing to do.

[rorschachx]

Spirit Bear or Kermode bear (Ursus americanus kermodei) | image by Dennis Binda

[dearmrharper]

August 18th

Dear Mr. Harper,

A few days ago, Mike told us about his encounter with the Spirit Bear. This morning I had the opportunity to spend some time with this majestic creature.

We crept up the side of the creek bed and after walking for only a few minutes, I spotted his glistening...

[dearmrharper]

August 24th

Dear Mr. Harper,

Have you ever considered that the Great Bear Rainforest is in fact globally unique?

There is Nowhere Else on Earth where you can watch orca whales, humpback whales, and fin whales all feeding in the same cove at the same time!

There is Nowhere Else on Earth...

[dearmrharper]

Dear Mr. Harper,

A few days ago we were traveling through the waters just outside of Hartley Bay when we came upon a pod of Orca whales. This is the second time we’ve seen this pod, a mum, two calfs and an escort. But, this is the only pod we’ve seen yet this season. The orca are...

[tank-commander]

“Our people never hunted the white bear,” says Helen Clifton, sitting in her kitchen in Hartley Bay, a small fishing village marked by tendrils of wood smoke and the echoing calls of ravens. Strong in voice and spirit, the 86-year-old Clifton is a clan matriarch of the Gitga’at, one of 14 bands...

[fewdull]

Conserving Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest (by Al Jazeera English)

[pedantic-antics]

Paul Nicklen SPIRIT BEAR Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia

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AUGUST ISSUE

In a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears are born with white fur.

“Paul Nicklen is a master at getting closer. He gets close enough to take this beautiful forest with this beautiful bear, eating a salmon, and make it all come together in a photograph that captures your imagination. I feel like I’m there. I can almost smell that forest, the bear. This is Paul’s home. This looks like a photo he took in his backyard of a dear friend.” —Chris Johns, Editor in Chief (NatGeo)

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Save the Great Bear Rainforest, home to the Spirit Bear!

Tipping Barrels from Sitka on Vimeo.

Enbridge wants to put an oil route smack in the middle of where the Spirit Bears live, within the Great Bear Rainforest. Please read the article by Andy French on Inertia for a better understanding and simply sign the petition to try and put a stop to this Avatar like disaster just waiting to happen. I believe our forests and natural wildlife are more valuable than an oil route. British Columbia is beautiful for a reason, so lets keep it that way! 

[treesandrocks]

stand up for Great Bear

[sign the petition]

[brandontakespictures-blog]

The Kermode, or Spirit Bear, is a rare white subspecies of black bear found in the coastal areas of NW British Columbia. 

http://www.brandonbroderick.com

[naked-city]

Great Bear Rainforest British Columbia, Canada Photos via: Nat Geo naturschatz.org dominionpaper.ca discoverwildlife.com / Thomas Peschak

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Canada- Great Bear Rainforest by markusmauthe on Flickr.

[betweentwoshores]

The Great Bear Rainforest is one of the last of its kind in the world.

“Sadly, pipelines & tankers aren’t  the only threats to it.

B.C. made headlines six years ago when  it promised to save one of the last intact  coastal temperate rainforests on the planet.

Today, logging is still allowed in 50% of the Great Bear Rainforest.

Let’s tell decision-makers to finish what they started.

As long as only half of B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest is protected, the whole forest is still at risk. Science is clear that at least 70% of the natural old-growth forest needs to be off-limits to logging to save it from disappearing forever. That’s why we’re calling on the provincial government to Take It Taller.

No matter which way you cut it, we need to protect more than half the forest from logging if we want to save the whole. We’re almost there. Tell the provincial government to Take It Taller for one of the last old-growth forests of its kind, the Great Bear Rainforest.”

[betweentwoshores]

Minimum daily requirement of beauty.

Sign the petition to protect this beautiful land: http://www.savethegreatbear.org/takeittaller/support?utm_source=Take+It+Taller&utm_campaign=25ff32096a-July_2012_push&utm_medium=email