Spirit Bears and the Great Bear Rainforest
Conservationists hope photo spread will bring attention to pipeline proposal.
Photographers Use Their Cameras for a Wildlife Cause
The Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia makes up about 25 percent of the world's remaining temperate rain forests. Much of it is protected from loggin but conservationists worry about the impact from a new pipeline that will bring oil from the Oil Sands in Alberta to this coastline. The proposed pipeline would end just east of the rainforest, but supertankers would be allowed into the coastal waters for the first time in a quarter century to transport the oil. (Daniel Beltra, International League of Conservation Photographers)
