On the mainland coast of British Columbia, opposite the northern end of Vancouver Island, north to the Alaskan Border, The Great Bear Rainforest stretches for more than 400 kilometres.

The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest remaining on earth and one of the world’s greatest environmental treasures.

Covering 6.4 million hectares, it represents 25 per cent of the earth’s remaining ancient coastal temperate rainforests.

Born of a complex interaction between oceans, mountains, forests and rain, coastal temperate rainforests are considered more threatened than tropical rainforests. Sadly nearly 60% of our planet’s original coastal temperate rainforests have been destroyed by logging and development.

Home to salmon, eagles, wolves and bears, this vast and extraordinary landscape is also home to more than 30,000 people, mostly First Nations with a history in this region that dates back more than 10,000 years.