This month, however, a spirit bear was spotted on a trail camera in Michigan, almost 1,900 miles from the Canadian islands. The camera had been set up in the state's Upper Peninsula ahead of the ...

Safe and secure for now, the spirit bear recently gained additional protection when British Columbia made it an offense of up to $104,000 ($100,000 Canadian) to shoot a white bear anywhere in the ...

Locals call them ghost, or spirit, bears, and some believe they’re sacred or supernatural creatures. There is science, not just folklore, behind several of the spirit bear’s traits.

His experiences inspired him to help establish Spirit Bear Lodge, an indigenous-owned enterprise which, since 2007, has enabled guests to get up close to the rainforest’s wildlife. Located in ...

Last October, Steven Rose came across a spirit bear — a rare white bear with an estimated 400 or less of its kind left in the wild — while exploring the Great Bear Rainforest, according to ...

The spirit bear remained "phantasmal", however, and in a way I was glad it did. "There are still wild things in this world", the forest seemed to be saying – "wild places where nature, not man ...