"That’s the last thing that we want to do." Officials issue warning after observing behavior shift in beloved bears: 'Just ...

An estimated 100-300 Kermode bears live in the Great Bear Rainforest, specifically on the Gribbell and Princess Royal Islands. They are considered a unique color phase of the American black bear.

The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest coastal temperate rainforest on Earth, spanning 6.4 million hectares.Its landscape is diverse, consisting of forests, glacial fjords, and hot springs.

A kermode bear cub, also known as a spirt bear, near Terrace, B.C. in May 2025, as captured using a zoom lens by Shelley Lindaas. Lindaas encourages people to understand that wildlife ...

A genetically rare black bear with white fur – often called a “spirit bear” – has been living in the wilds of the western Upper Peninsula. An approximately 100-pound male bear with blonde ...

Long thought to be cousins of the polar bear, these creamy-white animals are, in fact, Kermode bears (a subspecies of the black bear) that have pale coats owing to a genetic variant.

It's a male bear standing at 100 pounds, with blonde coloring. Since the bear has an all-white coat and cinnamon coloring on the back of its head and neck, it makes the bear a Kermode bear or ...