Its white fur glows against the emerald moss and towering cedar trees, giving the impression of a spirit gliding through the wilderness. This is the Kermode bear, more commonly known as the ...

This bear isn't what he's looking for. He's after a more revered and rare creature: what the Gitga'at call mooksgm'ol, the spirit bear, a walking contradiction—a white black bear. Neither albino ...

A spirit bear has been spotted in Michigan for the first time. The one-in-a-million white-colored bear is considered a symbol of change for Indigenous peoples. Spirit bears are a type of black ...

A rare spirit bear frolics in the waters of Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada. Steven Rose / CATERS NEWS What a catch. While visiting Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, 63-year-old ...

This photographer recently had a bear-y lucky encounter while fishing in British Columbia, Canada. Last October, Steven Rose came across a spirit bear — a rare white bear with an estimated 400 ...

A genetically rare black bear with white fur – often called a “spirit bear” – has been living in the wilds of the western Upper Peninsula. An approximately 100-pound male bear with blonde ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chief Doug Neasloss had always dreamt of seeing a spirit bear — but his first encounter didn’t start ...