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Kamis, 11 Agustus 2011

Great Bear Rainforest

You may have read the Bears and the Ghost of the Great Bear Rainforest, or Kermode bear Pipeline Through Paradise, and in August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. These articles will feature images by Paul Nicklen, and the expedition was supported by images from the Great Bear Rainforest in September 2010, the International League of Conservation Photographers. See what it takes pictures of this spectacular landscape with a behind the scenes material and interviews by Paul Nicklen here, and an eyewitness account of this extraordinary ecosystem and human nature, and that the call if the photographer and environmentalist Ian home McAllister.
Wolves and Ravens - Rainforest wolves can successfully closed more than 200 salmon in a night of fishing.

Q: What attracted you to the Great Bear Rainforest? What is unique about it?

I was lucky to be born in British Columbia and the formative years to examine the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island. Along the way, I found the local explorer / photographers like Mark Hobson and Adrian Dorst living outside zodiacs and document the natural beauty of the North Pacific. The passion of these people, the contribution they made to protect ancient forests and the lifestyle that inspired me to start pursuing a similar path. However, it was the brutal destruction of the clearcut logging of more than 80% of the forests of ancient forests of Vancouver Island and the realization that forestry companies have turned to the same end up getting the rainforests of the coast BC in the north - an area now know that the Great Bear Rainforest - which has truly become the game-changer.

It was a special time to be part of a major conservation campaign - but also a challenge to properly document a coastal desert larger than Switzerland, while helping a vision for conservation based on science that is based on intransigent governments and logging companies. When I saw the numerous river valleys that form the temperate forests of the north coast of British Columbia was no turning back. Even today, it feels like to see the place first - which is so full of life and beauty and mystery. To find large areas of intact ancient forest broken only by wild rivers full of salmon, grizzly bears, wolves, whales and many other things. Namely, that the First Nations communities continue to live in their ancestral territories and is still provided by the ocean. She deserves the best type of protection may not deserve to be a doormat for the oil companies.
Great Bear Rainforest Canada is the largest area of ​​intact temperate rainforest left on the ancient world.

Q: How does the ESP and the coast of British Columbia will be affected if the gas pipeline in North Gateway and as a result of traffic through megatanker?

Over the last twenty years, it was inspiring to work with so many environmentalists talented and dedicated, First Nations and citizens who stood up to protect this place. We managed to stay open cage salmon farming nets to develop here, over 30% of the forest are at different levels of protection, we purchased licenses for trophy hunting to help protect wildlife and First nations run conservation vision forward. There are a lot of work to do, but progress is being made. The idea of ​​introducing super tankers, the noisiest boats on the planet, this coast fragile, will move acoustically sensitive marine mammals such as humpback whales, killer whales and fin whales. Their ability to communicate and food would be so compromised that they simply do not exist here. If a tanker disgorged its oil after slamming into one of the innumerable reefs and islands along the proposed route of the tanker our coast would be complete.

It would be a series of waterfalls ecological collapse, culminating in the destruction of coastal communities and economies. First Nations for more than ten thousand years of continuous occupation here simply have nowhere else to go. Lifestyle would be changed so profoundly that this proposed pipeline has been described to form a cultural genocide.

Q: If you could choose five words to describe what would be the GBR?

Cultural, ecological, spiritual - rich and deep.
Carry the Spirit of the Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada.

Q Spirit Bear is clearly a local treasure. And 'more valued than the anomaly? It 'magical or shamanistic quality? What role does the iconography of the nation first? How can First Nations to protect this area?

The Spirit Bear is a worthy ambassador of the mystery and magnificence of this rainforest. Invisible from the outside for so long that he was forced to establish itself as an icon to inspire people to protect threatened coastal habitat. Photography work and the preservation of the film is as necessary today as it was twenty years ago. Example. We are in contact with people around the world who have read and Paul Nicklen Bruce Barcott report in the latest issue of National Geographic magazine about the Spirit Bear and the proposed Enbridge pipeline / tanker. This is journalism at its best preservation, because people just showed what a unique ecosystem and is very rare and the potential threat it faces.

It does not take a lot of people coming to the conclusion that it is a bad idea to bring half a million barrels a day, and the dirtiest oil in the world over the Rocky Mountains and the coastal mountain range, some of the most productive salmon rivers world of rock cliffs and coastline enclosed full-wave, where hurricane force winds are common.

We have every single oil company in the world (they are all invested in Canadian oil sands), supported by a dollar Petro nice blind federal government lined up against the Spirit of the Bear, the majority of Canadians, and a long list of courageous First Nations. If I were a shareholder Enbridge would run in the opposite direction. In many ways, this pipeline is a dream, but Canada is not drawing more people to make their voices heard.
The brown bear is taking a break from fishing for chum salmon.

Q: What can readers get involved?

It is deeply frustrating to see how few Americans are aware of the fact that Canada has joined an elite roster of planets petro-states. Away from Canadian tar sands should be more international concern, more people need to look more closely at the energy policy of Canada and what is the extraction of oil from tar sands will make the planet's health. At present, our national energy strategy is 100% of oil production from tar sands in rapid growth, and sell to the highest bidder, and when the State has the second largest proven oil reserves in the world is becoming less and less transmitting international obligations, or control. Canada has really need to connect the Asian economies, the dirtiest oil are most harmful to the environment in the world at the expense of one of the last great coastal rain forest? Visit pacificwild.org. Please contact us and we will help to drive support for the best possible way.

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