Fewer than 400 Kermode bears are estimated to exist in the coast area that stretches from Southeast Alaska southwards to the northern tip of Vancouver Island;[8] about 120 inhabit the large Princess and Prince Royal Island.[8] The largest concentration of the white bears inhabits 80-square-mile (210 km2)Gribbell Island, in the territory of the Gitga'ata people.[9]
The bear's habitat is potentially under threat from the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, whose planned route passes near the Great Bear Rainforest.[10][11] Native groups including the Gitga'at have opposed the pipeline.[12]
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