Campaigns

Friends of Nature actively lobbies against destructive forestry methods such as clear-cutting and herbicide spraying. We are also against biomass harvesting.

Each year, dangerous chemical herbicides are sprayed on Nova Scotia’s forests by government and the forestry industry. These herbicides have been linked to serious human health problems and are detrimental to Nova Scotia’s water supply, wildlife and ecosystem.

While the Nova Scotia government’s renewable energy targets are to be commended, reaching this goal through the scraping of our forests to produce forest biomass energy is not acceptable.

Open net pen fin-fish farming is a method of growing fish, usually salmon or trout in concentrated fish farms.

The Province has passed a bill to repeal the Uranium Exploration and Mining Prohibition Act, which long has forbidden uranium exploration and mining in the province.

We call ourselves Atlantic Canada’s Ocean Playground, yet our Government refuses to enact the unanimously passed Coastal Protection Act.