Publisher's Synopsis
Key Selling Points
- Features an iconic but often misunderstood wildlife species.
- Grizzly bear protection and hunting rules are hotly contested topics.
- Empowers children to make a difference in the world by taking action and profiles several young people who have been directly involved in grizzly bear conservation.
- Highlights the latest developments in grizzly bear conservation research, such as using computers and artificial intelligence to individually identify grizzlies in images captured by trail cameras.
- Profiles Indigenous conservationists and knowledge keepers, and highlights the importance of grizzlies in Indigenous cultures and how that informs conservation efforts .
- Author is a biologist who worked on a project with grizzlies in the Khutzeymateen/K'tzim-a-Deen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary in Northern BC. Her research and participation in that project played a part in that area being designated as Canada's first and only grizzly-bear sanctuary.