Conservation at Knight Inlet
Knight Inlet Lodge is a founding member of the Commercial Bear Viewing Association of British Columbia, committed to ensuring a sustainable grizzly bear viewing industry. They are working hard to ban legal trophy hunting, and have already introduced innovative ways to work with the hunting community in order to restrict trophy hunting in critical grizzly bear viewing habitats. Knight Inlet Lodge also work closely with local First Nations communities and and the fishing industry to ensure the protection of the surrounding ecosystem is approached inclusively.
In 2014 Dr. Melanie Clapham and Knight Inlet Lodge set up the Brown Bear Research Network, a group of scientists and commercial bear-viewing operators committed to the conservation of brown bears in British Columbia. Their focus is to increase research into BC’s grizzlies, particularly within the Great Bear Rainforest, to foster new conservation projects.
Fundamental to the protection of the grizzly bears is a healthy population of the wild Pacific salmon on which they depend. The salmon not only nourish the bears but also play a key part in fertilizing the surrounding forest too, sustaining habitats for birds and insects as well as bears and other mammals. As such a large investment has been made on wild salmon research, in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Guests at Knight Inlet Lodge can learn more about individual projects and even help the team with various research tasks during their stay.
