Healthy Bays Network & Protect Liverpool Bay present The New Privateer Film Fest Thursday, June 26 6:30-9:15 pm Astor Theatre, FREE Join us for three films exploring the open-net pen finish aquaculture industry at home and abroad, and how individual actions can create a ripple effect of lasting change in the fight to protect wild...
Dear Friends: Our fellow member and ally Silver Donald Cameron wants us to know about an important event in Halifax this Friday: A People’s Coalition, which will be followed by three more peoples’ coalitions. Also please attend the next public rally against open pen salmon farms which will be held this Sunday, March 1 at 2:00 pm...
Dear Friends: We find ourselves yet again in opposition to our own government and the aquaculture industry. Cermaq, a giant multi-national aquaculture firm (owned by Mitsubishi) has been granted options to install industrial size open pen salmon farms in the pristine waters of St Margaret’s Bay, Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Bay, the mouth of the LaHave...
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...
On July 17 the Friends of Nature planted two beautiful sugar maples at Our Health Centre in Chester, Nova Scotia to celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday. Someday the maples will tower over the building giving it life and scale.
Author and Forest Educator Jamie Simpson will introduce skills and reforestation forestry practices for Nova Scotia’s forests. The workshop will include: -Identification of common trees and plants -Tools and techniques for working with small woodlots -Basic ecology and low impact forest management -How to increase wildlife habitat Fee, including accomodations and meals is $190 To...
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