Between now and Earth Day, every dollar donated to KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest will be doubled!
With the release of our new video, we are excited to announce your chance to double your impact.
The purchase and permanent protection of this property is an ambitious undertaking by Raincoast and our partners at the Pender Islands Conservancy Association. We must raise $2.1 million. In pursuit of this goal, today we released our campaign video to introduce our community to KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest with an announcement: between now and Earth Day, every dollar donated to the protection of this forest will be doubled by Sitka Foundation up to $100,000.
KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest on S,DÁYES, Pender Island, links wetlands to the sea across 45 acres of Coastal Douglas-fir habitats, including an intertidal shoreline that overlooks the critical habitat for Southern Resident killer whales. It is home to a diversity of bird and amphibian species, and is a critical piece in protecting the larger watershed around Razor Point.
Tracts of undeveloped land are becoming increasingly rare around the Salish Sea, where rates of private land ownership are higher than anywhere else in British Columbia. But intact ecosystems provide habitat, food, and climate regulating services, all of which are critical for everyone who calls these places home.
Our success so far
Since launching this campaign in late December 2021, we have raised $170,000, bringing us to nearly 10% of our overall goal. One hundred percent of these funds have come from community members and local businesses, most of whom are based on the islands within the Salish Sea, but also including folks from across Canada. This demonstrates what is possible when our community comes together to take conservation action. Thank you to all who have contributed so generously already!
You can help
Raincoast’s in-house scientists, collaborating graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors make us unique among conservation groups. We work with First Nations, academic institutions, government, and other NGOs to build support and inform decisions that protect aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and the wildlife that depend on them. We conduct ethically applied, process-oriented, and hypothesis-driven research that has immediate and relevant utility for conservation deliberations and the collective body of scientific knowledge.
We investigate to understand coastal species and processes. We inform by bringing science to decision-makers and communities. We inspire action to protect wildlife and wildlife habitats.
