We hosted a unique collaboration between the New York Wolf Conservation Society, Pacific Wild and Mothership Adventures back in 2010. For this tour, we donated our services in an effort to support the important work Pacific Wild and the NYWCS were doing to bring awareness to one of earth’s most stunning wilderness areas–the Great Bear Rainforest.
Ian McAllister, previously the founding director of Pacific Wild, escorted a select group of adventurers on Mothership Adventures Columbia III to explore the wildlife-rich tapestry of forests, fjords and wave-pounded islands that stretch up the coast from British Columbia to Alaska. Ian’s photography and film work has focused on the carnivores of the Pacific coast – bears and wolves. In 2010, he was awarded the North American Nature Photography Association’s Vision Award and was also named among Time Magazine’s “Leaders of the 21st Century” for his contributions to environmental conservation.
The Wolf Conservation Center joined Pacific Wild’s effort by taking important first steps to learn more about the Great Bear Rainforest, its rich cultural, ecological, and economic value and the measures needed to safeguard this global treasure for future generations. Pacific Wild, a non-profit conservation organization that defends wildlife and their habitat on Canada’s Pacific coast, offered this once-in-a-lifetime adventure to the Great Bear Rainforest to learn more about the region and why it’s so crucial that we all work together to protect it. Mothership Adventures has been supporting Pacific Wild for many years, and we were happy to participate are excited to be part of this new collaboration.
The Great Bear Rainforest, on Canada’s Pacific coast, is home to a myriad of healthy populations of species of plants, birds and animals, including subspecies and genetically unique populations of wildlife like the Spirit Bear and coastal grey wolf. Serious environmental challenges have put this region in threat, prompting the action of scientists and conservationists who are working hard to promote the protection of one of last wild intact functioning ecosystems and one of the planet’s most priceless treasures.
In an effort to mobilize a concerned global citizenry to achieve large-scale wildlife protection, meeting the “Great Bear” will afford visitors the chance to become immersed in the ecologically rich marine and terrestrial environments of an endangered corner of British Columbia – the kind of place that one can still watch grizzly bears, humpback whales, spirit bears, wolves and so much else all in a single day – while learning about the challenges that threaten its unique biological diversity.
