Nature
The Great Bear Rainforest is a vast temperate rainforest on British Columbia’s Pacific coast that forms part of the world’s largest coastal temperate rainforest ecoregion. Shaped by heavy ocean-fed rainfall and coastal mountains, it contains ancient western red cedar and towering Sitka spruce, and supports wildlife such as salmon, wolves, grizzly bears, and the rare white-coated Kermode bear. Beginning in 1990, campaigners working with First Nations pushed to protect key watersheds from logging. Agreements reached in the 2000s and 2016 established broad protected areas, strict ecosystem-based management, and permanent protection for most old-growth forest, while recognizing shared decision-making with Indigenous communities.
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