The Friends of Nature Annual General meeting will be held on Friday, June 20, 2025 at 5:00 pm at St Stephens Community Hall, 54 Regent St, Chester. The guest speaker will be Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada. There will be entertainment provided by both Hank Middleton and the Studio Singers; and...
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: You are invited to a momentous environmental announcement on Monday which we believe will bear the fruit of 15 years of work by FON, especially Brad and Rudy. Best wishes Syd Dumaresq, Chair Friends of Nature
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...
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...
You are invited to join the Haase family for a Celebration of the Life of Rudy Haase When: November 24, 2017 at 1:45 Where: St Andrew’s United Church, 1390 Robie St, corner of Coburg Halifax, NS
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