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Your Impact in 2025: A Year of Conservation, Health, and Hope

Date

December 28, 2025

BC Parks Foundation

Your Impact in 2025: A Year of Conservation, Health, and Hope

In 2025, you made some great things happen. It was hard to choose five highlights, but we did. Here’s what you made possible this year.

Land Protection

You helped crowdfund $1.25 million to protect 100 acres of coastal forest and nearly one kilometre of untouched shoreline in Prideaux Haven.

Coastline of lake and forested hill — You helped crowdfund $1.25 million to protect 100 acres of coastal forest and nearly one kilometre of untouched shoreline in Prideaux Haven.

You contributed to protecting twenty-one beautiful places across BC—grasslands, coastlines, old-growth trees, wetlands—covering a total of 120,000 acres.

A lake supporting salmon. Habitat for elk, bears, moose, birds, and butterflies. The largest terrestrial conservation area in the Gulf Islands. All safeguarded for wildlife and for people to enjoy forever, because of you.

Healthy By Nature

Students across BC are using their Learning by Nature grants to increase biodiversity in their schoolyards.

Student plants garden — Students across BC are using their Learning by Nature grants to increase biodiversity in their schoolyards.

This year, we launched Learning By Nature and funded over 100 schools across BC so they can be greener and help boost kids’ learning and mental health.

We also celebrated five years of PaRx, Canada’s national nature prescription program.

More than 20,000 healthcare providers improved Canadians’ health and reduced healthcare costs by issuing an estimated 1.5 million prescriptions for time in nature.

PaRx is now the largest nature prescription program in the world, thanks to your support.

BC Conservation Fund

Birds-eye view image of river and forest — The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs are leading the Meziadin Watershed Salmon Habitat Conservation Plan, supported by the BC Conservation Fund

2025 was the year we began investing in large-scale conservation through the BC Conservation Fund. This fund accelerates the protection of land and freshwater while creating lasting benefits for communities and economies.

This year, we invested in 47 conservation initiatives, where 232 partners are working together, including 80 First Nations communities.

These projects aim to support 114 species at risk, protect hundreds of thousands of hectares of old-growth, and safeguard values critical to the health and security of people and wildlife in BC.

Community Science & Stewardship

Everyone in BC can contribute to understanding the diversity of life that supports us, and we have the data to prove it.

In 2025, British Columbians uploaded nearly 10 million nature observations, pushing us past 35 million total observations. More than 70,000 people are contributing to this massive community-powered science effort. Thank you for being a part of it.

Discover Parks

A record-breaking year for Discover Parks.

This summer, our ambassadors interacted with more than 180,000 park visitors, bringing 2025’s total to nearly 240,000 moments of learning, wonder, and park magic.

From earning Jerry’s Antlers to witnessing salmon leaping upriver to guided wildflower tours, visitor experiences came alive in more than 25 parks across BC. All made possible by you.

Looking Ahead

All of this incredible impact is only possible because of you. And this was just a glimpse of what you achieved in 2025.

You can get more inspiring good news about your conservation, health, and education wins in 2026 by subscribing to our newsletter below.

And one more milestone worth celebrating: this year, our community grew past 100,000 people following our work. What an amazing group to be part of.

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