Spirit of the forest


  • Photographer
    Daisy Gilardini
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2012/2016
  • Moving Link

The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest coastal temperate rainforest in the world and certainly one of the most pristine places on earth I have ever visited. Here lives the kermode bear - one of the rarest bears in the world. Also called by the First Nations “mooksgm’ol” or “spirit bear,” it is a subspecies of the American black bear that, due to a unique recessive gene, has a white or cream-coloured fur. With only 400 to 1,000 individuals left and a territory limited to 400 kilometres of Canada’s western coast, it is essential to protect this region from any possible human disturbance. My interest in documenting this regions and the Kermode bear started in 2011. During these years advocating the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest and the Spirit Bear my images have appeared on various articles and magazines including a full feature published by BBC Magazine in 2015.

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