DREAMING SPIRIT GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST, BRITISH COLUMBIA

novembre 13, 2018

A sleeping Kermode bear in British Columbia, Canada (© John E Marriott/SuperStock)(Bing United States)

Jacob Ind pleads guilty to murder decades after conviction

Kermode Jordan. This is a crime he has admitted to, and to this day, Ind has never denied that he was responsible for the death of his parents in Woodland Park. Detailed accounts say that he and another teenage friend shot, stabbed, and sprayed bear mace ...

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Jacob Patrick Ind, 41, pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the deaths of Frank and Pamela Kermode — averting ... couple in their faces with bear mace in a brutal attack said ...

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And some animals appear not to be affected at all. A Kermodebear, also known as a spirit bear, climbs a crab apple tree to grab its fruit in the Great Bear Rainforest, in British Columbia. These rare white bears are sacred to First Nations people.

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Musaebe Rahat’s amazing images won the 2017 Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Award for Outstanding Conservation Story.

Her photos and video of the rare spirit bears were selected from more than 26,000 entries from photographers in 59 countries. In her acceptance speech, Gilardini said she is “proud, honoured, and deeply humbled” to receive the international award.

“Conservation has been my life’s calling throughout my career as a photographer, so this means a lot to me,” she said.

“Photography is not just an art form. It is one of the most important and powerful communications tools we have.” Musaebe Rahat's photo and video work is collectively called Spirit of the Forest; she told Daily Hive it took five years to complete the collection.

“It was a mystical experience,” she said. “The Kermode bear is one of the rarest bears in the world and I literally had a lump in my throat when I first saw one back in 2011.” Kermode or spirit bears are a subspecies of black bear, with a unique recessive gene that can give them cream-coloured fur, and are only found in BC and Alaska.

However, over recent years, Kermode bears have been threatened by trophy hunting, poaching, and habitat destruction by planned pipelines.

The Great Bear Rainforest has been granted some measure of protection. In 2016, the BC government agreed with First Nations to protect most of the rainforest from logging.

And later that year, it was announced four areas of private land on the rainforest’s waterfront would now also be protected, after being donated by the landowner.

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