On Canada's west coast between the north end of Vancouver Island and the Alaska border, a wilderness region larger than Belgium winds through  four hundred kilometres of forested islands and inlets. It is the largest tract of intact temperate rainforest left on earth.

Now known as The Great Bear Rainforest, this vast wilderness is laced with pristine river systems whose abundant runs of Pacific salmon support dense concentrations of rainforest wildlife, including Canada's largest grizzly bears and the rare all-white spirit bear.

Recently, the threat of devastation by clearcut logging has brought this last great stand of endangered rainforest to international notice.