This can certainly be said of the elusive and striking Kermode bear, a rare species of black bear found only in British Columbia. What makes the Kermode bear so special, and how does it thrive despite ...

In the case of the spirit bear, their white coats are due to a rare recessive phenotype (rather than albinism, since they have pigment in their skin and eyes). Thus, only about 10-20% of Kermode ...

But as a reminder of the ice age, he caused every 10th black bear to be white. The formal name is Kermode bear. Locals call them ghost, or spirit, bears, and some believe they’re sacred or ...

The white Kermode bear, a rare ursa sacred to local tribes, is now the center of a fierce battle to protect British Columbia’s rainforest. Melissa Groo Very quietly we paddle to shore in a raft ...

a spirit bear — or a Kermode bear — is a subspecies of the North American black bear. This uncommon animal is not albino, rather the species has a rare gene variation that causes them to be ...

the Gobi bear is one of the rarest animals on Earth This was my second year of attempting to film them, and although my team had managed to gather footage of bears using remote cameras ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calls the Great Bear Rainforest "the planet's last large expanse of coastal temperate rain forest." Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia ...