Dear Friends: Friends of Nature are proud to report that Maria Kirby Breen, our youngest Board Member and our Membership Director, has received both a Volunteer Award from the Municipality of the District of Chester and the Youth Volunteer Award for all of Nova Scotia. This picture shows Maria about to receive the award from...
Dear Friends, Please join us for ECO-RALLY #2 – PICTOU RISING! “A Conversation with Joan Baxter”! When: TUESDAY, APRIL 2– 7PM Where: MARGARET’S CENTRE, 2 WESTWOOD BLVD., UPPER TANTALLON, NS Incisive, no nonsense, take no prisoners. Joan Baxter’s brilliant exposé “The Mill – Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest” tells the story of shocking government/industry collusion and a community...
Dear Friends: Jamie Simpson, one of our board members, is acting for Bob Bancroft and three other groups in launching this action to require the NS Government to live up to their legislated requirement to protect species at risk. Friends of Nature fully supports this action. Great work Jamie and Bob! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 24,...
Dear Friends, Friends of Nature held our 64th Annual General Meeeting on October 11, 2018 in Chester NS. The meeting was followed by a showing by the Ecology Action Centre of the excellent documentary on the evils of Biomass electrical generation titled “Burned”. The documentary was followed by a discussion lead by our friend Ray...
Dear Friends: Our colleague Ray Plourde from the Ecology Action Centre has released a detailed critique of the Lahey Report on forestry practices. The Lahey report was released to Government in August of this year. As of today no comments have been received from Government. Here are links to Ray’s critique, a critique from Healthy Forests...
Would you like to know more about the devastating effects of clear cutting our forests to provide fodder for giant electrical generating furnaces not only in here Nova Scotia but also in Europe, as we export shiploads of wood chips there??? The Friends of Nature, Canada’s oldest environmental conservation group, in collaboration with the Ecology...
Friends of Nature was well represented at last Friday’s No Pipe Protest in Pictou. Brad Armstrong and Syd Dumaresq from the Friends of Nature Board were there as well as many of our members and friends from sister organizations. Congratulations to Ray Plourde and the EAC and others for getting thousands of people and 300...
Dear Friends, Friends of Nature strongly supports this No Pipe Rally. The idea of piping that pollution from the mill in Pictou into the Northumberland Strait is ludicrous. Keep reading below for more information. Best regards Syd Dumaresq, Chair, Friends of Nature. The Healthy Forest Coalition Presents: Forest Alerts Your help is needed! Please make plans...
Public land and wildlife continue to be destroyed, yet are absent from industry costs Pulp companies use softwoods like spruce to manufacture paper products. They obtain leases to cut wood on Crown land, in forests owned by the public. The leases allow them to cut hardwood trees on Crown land. When other energy prices, such...
Yesterday, December 7, 2017 a delegation from Friends of Nature made a presentation to the Independent Review of Forest Practices, led by Professor Bill Lahey. Our presentation was well received and resulted in a healthy discussion with Mr Lahey. A copy of our brief is follows . . . December 7, 2017 Presentation to Bill...
Since 1954, when the organization was formed by Martin Rudy Haase to protect a unique island in Maine, Friends of Nature has been dedicated to maintaining the balance of nature for the mutual benefit of people and their plant and animal friends.
Friends of Nature
Friends of Nature Conservation Society
Dedicated to maintaining the balance of nature for people and their plant & animal friends.
P.O. Box 577
Chester, Nova Scotia, B0J 1J0