Sitting in a small plane weaving between B.C.’s Purcell Mountains, Ukrainian veteran Ivan Maruniak said he felt joy for the first time in two years. “This is the place where you don’t feel danger, and you don’t expect danger,” he said through a translator. Mr. Maruniak...
In 2019 Ben Fogle returned to Wild Bear Lodge to film a second episode for New Lives in the Wild. He found that Julius and Kristin had succeeded in one of their key aims – to ban grizzly bear hunting in BC....
By Mike Carter I really wanted to be here. But now that I was, I would rather have been anywhere else. I was deep inside ancient woodland. It was almost dark. In the gloaming, the gnarled trunks of vast red cedars, some more than 1,000 years...
On a recent crisp sunny morning, a small group of wildlife guides and British and Canadian military veterans, reached a ridge in the mountains of British Columbia and found themselves within 15 metres of a grizzly bear. Click here for more +++...
In this podcast Julius is interviewed by Nicholas Scapillati of the Grizzly Bear Foundation. He talks about the beginnings of Wild Bear Lodge (then Grizzly Bear Ranch), its bears, its vision, the interior temperate rainforest, -which is the only one of its kinds in the...
Ben Fogle films his first episode of New Lives in the Wild at Wild Bear Lodge in which he tells the story of how Julius and Kristin, true urbanites, came to BC and set up a bear-viewing business in the middle of nowhere....
Spotting grizzly bears in Canada Step one: fly to Canada. Step two: check into Wild Bear Lodge (Grizzly Bear Ranch). Step three: look out the window. Easy. By Mark Franchetti Deep in the remote wilderness of British Columbia, I was in the back of a 4WD as it...
A couple of years after arriving at the ranch, Julius was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 about his time as a foreign correspondent, the wars he had covered and his and Kristin's decision to move to British Columbia. He also talked about the valley they now...