Join us
Help protect this important wild forest and wetland ecosystem.
Add your name to our online petition, write a letter to BC Parks or pick the message you like best for your custom-made driveway sign…
Add your name to the online petition
Add your name to the growing list of people who want to welcome visitors to Hornby without harming forest ecosystems:
Write a letter
Write to BC Parks, your MLA, your friends, your social media followers & local news outlets. Click the button below to find talking points & addresses.
Ask for a Sign
Custom signs made locally from reclaimed materials. Pick the message you want and we’ll make one—just for you.
Make a Donation
We are raising funds to hire an independent biologist. BC Parks has not conducted the necessary environmental impact assessments for the sensitive area they intend to develop.
Would be willing to make a donation? We have set an initial target of $6,000 and every penny will be accounted for.
Quotes
Island’s Trust:
“Coastal Douglas-fir ecosystems are biologically, culturally, and physically important. These forested landscapes maintain our local climates, the sustainability of our freshwater systems, and the
biodiversity of our islands. They are home to many endangered plant communities and are ranked as a high priority for preservation, globally and provincially.” ~excerpt from ‘Protecting the Coastal Douglas-fir Zone & Associated Ecosystems: an Islands Trust Toolkit’.
This toolkit recommends that we:
- maintain contiguous forest cover;
- protect and restore functioning ecosystems;
- protect watershed ecology;
- honour Coast Salish cultural heritage.
Ecology & the Law
“In the 1990’s, 43 children in the Philippines sued the government over deforestation projects… the supreme court in Manilla upheld the rights of children to protect themselves and future generations— a principle called the Oposa Doctrine, with legal influence worldwide.”
“A group of 25 children in Columbia, the youngest seven years old, followed the lead of the Phillipines and sued to protect the Amazonian rainforest. The Countries high court now asserts that it will ‘recognize the Columbian Amazon as an entity’ whose right should be protected.”
“In 2014, New Zealand granted legal rights to national park; in 2017 it granted legal rights to a river.”
~Susan Tyler Hitchcock, PhD
Canada’s Commitments:
“Forests play an essential role in the long-term health of our planet. We are committed to intensifying efforts to protect forests and to significantly restore degraded forests.” ~excerpt from the Paris Agreement: a legally-binding international treaty on climate change.
In 2015, Canada signed the Paris agreement & committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions “by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030”.
It is now 2024.
In 2024, the federal governments committed to protecting 30% of Canada’s land by the year 2030:
Tribune Bay Park should be part of Canada’s ’30 by 30′.
Friends of Tribune Bay Ecosystem 