| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr.) ; 304311417 bytes |
| Summary |
Part of NITV's environment focus.A forest that lives off fish, a white bear that is not a polar bear, and wolves that feed off the ocean. Canada's Great Bear Rain Forest is a strange and pristine world, a land that time almost forgot. Legend has it that Raven, the creator, gave white fur to one out of ten black bears, as a memento of the time when the earth was still covered with ice more than 10,000 years ago. To the native Tsimshian of the Gitga'at community the Moksgm'ol, or the Spirit Bear, symbolises the spirit of the rain forest. Their dances and stories will guide us on our quest for the mysterious white bear.Marven Robinson, one of the local pathfinders from the Gitga'at community has spent all his life here and knows the area around the islands by heart. He knows the secret places of Spirit Bears so he decides to walk. With the aid of high-speed technology, underwater cameras and a pole-cam, this documentary takes the viewer on a journey to the mysterious world of the Spirit Bear, from a variety of different perspectives.Once a year, this unspoiled part of the world becomes a true paradise. The ravens, wolves and bears impatiently await the salmon runs in the late summer, the one-time of the year, when they can eat their fill with fish. It is this cycle of life that makes the bears and wolves iconic species in the Great Bear Rain Forest - the only forest, that lives off fish and a fragile ecosystem, that survived nearly untouched for tens of thousands of years |
| Event |
Broadcast 2015-11-22 at 20:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
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Bears -- Behavior.
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Bears -- Habitations.
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Forest animals -- Food.
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Kermode bear.
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Salmon fisheries.
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Temperate rain forest ecology.
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Canada.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Sigl, Angelika, director
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Webster, Gil, cast
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