LaHave Coastal Protects East Spectacle Island

LaHave Coastal Conservation Association focuses its work in the LaHave Archipelago, located on the beautiful and biodiverse South Shore of Nova Scotia, in the traditional territory of the Mi’kmaq Nation. LaHave Coastal is happy to announce…

BC Parks Foundation Helps Preserve Vital Ecosystem on Salt Spring Island

Residents of Salt Spring Island, the largest of BC’s Gulf Islands and located in the traditional territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, have worked with the BC Parks Foundation to successfully save part of a rare ecosystem from development…

2024 Canadian Federal Budget Includes Changes to Capital Gains Tax

The Land Conservancy’s Deertrails Naturalists Program to Return to the Upper Clearwater Valley in 2024

The Land Conservancy of B.C. (TLC) is pleased to announce a spring 2024 session of the Deertrails Naturalist Program from May 14 to 19, 2024. This four full-day workshop invites deep immersion in the practice of place-based living. Set in the…

Bowen Island Now Protected Land!

American Friends of Canadian Conservation (AFCC) is excited to announce the protection of Bowen Island, located in the Township of Tarbutt, Ontario. We had a great experience working with The Kensington Conservancy (TKC) on this ecologically…

Music for Birds and Bears

Music is what makes Chris Wood tick. The 52-year-old bassist is co-founder of The Wood Brothers, a roots band based in Nashville, Tennessee. Together with Chris’s brother Oliver on guitar and Jano Rix on drums and keyboards, the trio records…
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Celebrating a Vision Realized on Prince Edward Island

For years, Peter and Molly Eppig and their family left their home in New Hampshire to spend summers on the Maine coast. In 1993 when their usual vacation rental was unavailable, their boys suggested they find a destination with warmer water…
Joel and Ada Farber

Tax Savvy Produces Conservation and a Family Legacy

In 1969, an American couple canoed around the Thousand Islands of Ontario. Ada and Joel Farber had both camped in the Adirondack and Pocono Mountains of New York State when they were children. The Canadian Thousand Islands region had a similar…

Message from the Executive Director

It has been an amazing few months working as the first Executive Director at American Friends of Canadian Conservation (American Friends). Amazing to see the international partnerships forged over the years. Amazing to see the landscape scale…

Half-Day Cross Border Conservation Workshop – October 24, 2022