A chance to double your donation to KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest!

As we enter the giving season, Raincoast and the Pender Islands Conservancy are thrilled to announce a donation matching campaign to support the purchase and permanent protection of KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest. Every dollar donated before December 31, 2022* will be matched by anonymous donors. This is a chance for you to double your impact! We have less than two months remaining to raise the outstanding over half a million dollars required to meet our $2.1 million goal.

We are currently 70% of the way there, having raised $1.5 million. A large portion of these funds have come from nearly 500 individual donors as far afield as France, Switzerland, and the United States, with the majority coming from people within Canada, including Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC. 

We have until the end of the year to reach our final target. Our need is urgent, but we have seen our community of supporters move mountains when they work together to protect the ecosystems they love. With the deadline to protect this old growth forest of the future fast approaching, will you help us reach critical mass and make this conservation dream a reality?

Those interested in doubling their impact and helping us secure the pledged matching funds must make their contribution to the KELÁ_EKE Kingfisher Forest before December 31, 2022. Donations can be made through Raincoast or the Pender Islands Conservancy. As registered charitable not-for-profits, both organizations can issue an official tax receipt in exchange for your gift. This is a terrific opportunity to maximize your tax benefits while supporting a worthwhile cause.

We are so grateful to everyone who has gotten us to this point and to those who continue to support us as we work toward raising the remaining 30% of our fundraising goal. 

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.