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Leaves Unidentified leaves in Mussel Inlet. Great Bear Rainforest, BC, Canada. © Jason Houston

Ways to Give

Providing Strength Through Flexibility

The Resilience Rapid Response Fund embodies our commitment to solutions that help people and nature weather this pandemic.

Maximize Your Impact

A founding donor to our work has offered a 1:1 qualifying match on any gifts over $1,000 to Nature United’s greatest needs. Right now, you can invest in resilient solutions for people and nature that will not only help us weather this storm, but come through it stronger. 

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Strength is borne from flexibility—that’s one of nature’s most important lessons. Resilience lets us spring, stretch, and shift directions when the unexpected hits. Today, faced with a storm of short, and long-term COVID-19 implications, Nature United has launched the Resilience Rapid Response Fund. The fund embodies our commitment to solutions that help people and nature weather this pandemic, towards a sustainable Canada that includes healthy lands, waters and climate. 

The flexible, core support will help Nature United respond creatively to our organization’s sustainability over the next year and to our partners’ emerging needs. It will also help Nature United become a stronger force for conservation in a post-COVID world, enabling us to bring an economic-recovery lens to all of our projects.

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If you are based in the US, you can make a secure, online donation through our global affiliate.

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Why We Need Your Support

Across Canada, communities, businesses and governments are grappling with how to cope with COVID-19. Economies are crashing, governments are realigning priorities, and Indigenous leaders and researchers are sounding the alarm. Beyond the health impacts, the pandemic also threatens climate action as attention and resources are diverted elsewhere. And, Indigenous-led conservation efforts, critical to sustaining healthy local ecosystems and economies, are in jeopardy as limited resources are redeployed to tackle the emergency.

But, together we can make a difference. 

Your support will help us:

  • Respond creatively and nimbly to our partners’ evolving needs,
  • Integrate climate solutions into a green economic recovery, and
  • Develop conservation approaches that create jobs and support local sustainable economies that act as a catalyst for greater social equity and reconciliation.
Children from the Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation in the Northwest Territories enjoy a day exploring outdoors in their traditional territory.
Exploring the Outdoors Children from the Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation in the Northwest Territories enjoy a day exploring outdoors in their traditional territory. © Pat Kane

To ensure we can continue to lead through the storm of COVID-19, our partners need flexibility. To provide it to them, so do we.

What We're Doing

Already, Nature United has been working hard to address challenges created by the current crisis, investing in creative solutions to keep climate action and Indigenous-led conservation moving forward.

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    Emergency grants and flexibility on existing agreements to help communities in key project areas to maintain land stewardship program capacity and continuity. These programs are an important source of livelihood in small communities.

  • 02

    Specialized COVID-19 response training and support for Indigenous Guardian programs and networks across Canada, including virtual courses on tactical communications (to support Guardians in their work enforcing community closures), knowledge sharing.

  • 03

    Ecological economics training for conservation staff to increase our capacity to deliver conservation strategies aimed at economic recovery.

  • 04

    Virtual resources and support for Indigenous youth through our Emerging Leaders initiative to support young leaders during this time of social isolation.

Investing in Our Future

This is the time for leaders in philanthropy, business, Indigenous communities and government to find new pathways towards a sustainable Canada that includes healthy lands, waters and climate.

Done right, nature can create jobs and support inclusive local economies. Conservation can be a force for greater social equity and reconciliation. With your support, the Resilience Rapid Response Fund will ensure Nature United, and our partners can continue this critical work.

Donating from the United States?

If you are based in the US, you can make a secure, online donation through our global affiliate at nature.org/canada.

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Give relief. Give creativity. Give capacity: Your support at work.

Right now, we can invest in resilient solutions for people and nature that will not only weather this storm, but come through it stronger.

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More About Our Work

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Success

Thaidene Nëné

In 2019, the Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation signed Establishment Agreements with Parks Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories that marked a historic milestone for Thaidene Nëné. But the work didn't stop there. Today, Łutsël K’é is showing the world what is possible through Indigenous-led conservation.

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Initiative

Emerging Stewards

Reaching more than 450 students per year, this community-led initiative supported by Nature United connects youth of all ages to the natural world just outside their front door.

A boat operated by the Kitasoo Coastal Guardian Watchmen and Spirit Bear Lodge, near Klemtu, British Columbia

Conservation Update

Technical Support Team for Indigenous Guardians

The Technical Support Team offers flexible, remote support for Indigenous Guardians to help establish resilient, long-term success in stewardship programs across Canada.