- Hauser Bears - Paul Nicklen - A charity specialising in care for the Welfare of Bears Worldwide

Everything around me is wet. The forest is cloaked in a wonderfully thick cushion of lush, green, slippery moss. As uncomfortable as it is to spend day-after-day completely soaked, the sodden environment is one of the things that makes this place - the Great Bear Rainforest - so distinctive. Located in northern British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest remaining tract of Pacific Northwest Coastal Rainforest, an ecosystem that harbors hundreds of species including cougars, black bears, grizzly bears, and a highly adapted coastal wolf, the only of its kind to specialize in seashore scavenging for mussels, clams, seaweed, and salmon.