This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The formal name is Kermode bear. Locals call them ghost, or spirit, bears, and some believe they’re sacred ...

This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... what the Gitga'at call mooksgm'ol, the spirit bear, a walking contradiction—a white black bear.

(Spotting a spirit bear takes a lot of patience, even more luck, and the expert tracking skills of a local guide.) When to Go: From late August to the middle of October, thousands of returning ...

From spirit bears to polar bears, Indigenous people are working to protect bears and the bear’s role in their traditions ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

This story appears in the October 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... the Kermode, or spirit bear. A misty temperate rain forest of conifers shrouds it all, from waterline to Coast ...