GrizzCast

Welcome to GrizzCast Dispatches — short-format, real-time episodes on urgent grizzly bear conservation stories. In our first Dispatch series, host Nicholas Scapillati investigates the remarkable journey of Tex — a young male grizzly bear who swam across the Salish Sea and arrived on Texada Island. His presence has sparked debate, concern, and Indigenous-led calls for a new model of coexistence. In...

Welcome to GrizzCast Dispatches — short-format, real-time episodes on urgent grizzly bear conservation stories. In our first Dispatch series, host Nicholas Scapillati investigates the remarkable journey of Tex — a young male grizzly bear who swam across the Salish Sea and arrived on Texada Island. His presence has sparked debate, concern, and Indigenous-led calls for a new model of coexistence. Di...

GrizzCast is back — with a new season and a new sense of urgency 🐻🎧  Welcome to our first-ever GrizzCast Dispatch — short-format, real-time episodes on urgent grizzly bear conservation stories. In our first Dispatch series, Nicholas Scapillati investigates the remarkable journey of Tex — a young male grizzly bear who swam across the Salish Sea and made it to Texada Island. His presence has...

Grizzly bears have been portrayed by Hollywood as cuddly, bumbling, chatty friends wearing crop tops and singing songs, while simultaneously constructed as abnormally large people-eating predators, out to maul anything in their path. In folktales and myths they are powerful teachers. How we portray the grizzly bear is a fascinating part of our culture – one that is changing, as wild places and wil...

Nearly 1,000 kilometres away from the nearest ocean lies the largest Inland Temperate Rainforest on Planet Earth. “Ultimately, grizzly bears led me to this very, very different sense of nature where I didn't see nature as an opponent--as something that was out to challenge me or hurt me. I saw it as something that was much more restorative and something that I could be part of. ” Join us...

The Great Bear Rainforest. Sacred wisdom sits here. It’s a place of magic and mystery, where ancient stories blanket great valleys. “ The grizzly bear in our culture symbolizes power and especially authority. I always have a saying. Rather than letting the authority be the truth, let the truth be the authority.” This is a story about the life and death of a young grizzly bear in the Broughton Arch...

After years in the trophy hunting business, Phil Timpany has redefined his relationship with grizzly bears, honouring their forgiveness and dedicating his life to their well-being. “I was responsible for a lot of grizzly bear deaths. I feel that I owe them. I'm really trying hard to pay that debt back and also in a respect to the animal being so intelligent and so able to understand what coexisten...

Join Grizzly Bear Foundation ’s Executive Director, Nicholas Scapillati, on a journey through some of the most famous grizzly country in the world with naturalist, author and Vietnam veteran Doug Peacock . “ I’m fighting for grizzlies but it could be any other animal including Homo Sapien, you know I'd be doing the same damn thing,” said Doug Peacock. “Things have got to move. I'm not sure we got...

Inspired by an iconic symbol of the North American wild - the grizzly bear - GrizzCast is a narrative, fact-based show by the Grizzly Bear Foundation that takes listeners across the grizzly bear’s range through a diversity of voices and stories of people working on the frontlines of conservation. As we continue to share these stories, please consider supporting our work with a financial gift by vi...