Spoil (2011)

Documentary on the Great Bear Rainforests under threat by dirty tarsands

Run Time: 0h44m | Release: 11 Mar 2011

8 / 101 Vote Count

Overview:

The International League of Conservation Photographers and the Gitga'at first nation people of British Columbia in their search for the illusive spirit bear. Their mission is to create images of this rare bear and the ecosystem that it relies on before a proposed oil pipeline from the Alberta tar sands threatens to SPOIL it. The spirit bear, globally rarer than the panda, only lives on the north coast of British Columbia and gives and inspiring look at the interconnectedness of this coastal ecosystem existing in symbiosis with the indigenous communities there for thousands of years.