the spirit bear, a walking contradiction—a white black bear. Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear (also known as the Kermode bear) is a white variant of the North American black bear ...

he caused every 10th black bear to be white. The formal name is Kermode bear. Locals call them ghost, or spirit, bears, and some believe they’re sacred or supernatural creatures. There is ...

The rare “spirit bear”, revered by the Canadian First Nations people who have lived among them for thousands of years, symbolises the unspoilt 65,000-square-kilometre Great Bear Rainforest ...

Sprawling along Canada's Pacific coast, from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the Alaskan border, the Great Bear Rainforest is a protected wilderness area roughly twice the size of Belgium. It ...

The spirit bear is a rarity – a black bear with recessive genes that give it a creamy white coat. Its other name, ‘ghost bear’, reflects its elusiveness. Paul encountered this individual in September, ...

of which the most striking is surely the spirit bear, says Oliver Berry in the Financial Times. Long thought to be cousins of the polar bear, these creamy-white animals are, in fact, Kermode bears ...