Beautiful site should bring the bears running

Beautiful site should bring the bears running.
#raincoastscience #greatbearrainforest

Beautiful site should bring the bears running.
#raincoastscience #greatbearrainforest
Yesterday’s field crew had great success in the Fraser Estuary. We caught 901 juvenile salmon (Chinook and chum). We also collected thirty genetic samples from juvenile Chinook…
How do salmon declines affect coastal bears? How is the low abundance of chinook affecting resident killer whales? And how much salmon biomass is required…
Would you like to visit a place like this? A place where grizzly bears, black bears, wolves and Spirit bears roam. This shot was taken in one of the estuaries…
Having now acquired three commercial hunting tenures in the Great Bear Rainforest that cover over 30,000 square kilometres we need to conduct “hunts” in these areas. But the only trophies you’ll return with are memories and photographs.
That’s a whale of a family tree – Killer whales can be individually ID’d by their markings & dorsal fin shape. We can use this info to keep track of who’s related to who and their movement. Kept these books close at hand while on board The Achiever!
Congratulations on helping us reach our fundraising goal for the Kitlope tenure.