Nature heals — in more ways than one.

Science shows that spending time in nature reduces stress and anxiety and boosts energy, creativity, co-ordination, problem solving and curiosity.

For Earth Day, you can make MORE green spaces available to MORE people. Donate to support healing forests.

Donate to create healing forests

Your gift will help establish green spaces throughout Canada. Next week we will be announcing our partnership with the National Healing Forest Initiative to inspire groups and individuals to create local healing forests that:

• Honour residential school victims, survivors and their families; murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls and two-spirit people; and children who have been removed from their families and are now caught in the welfare system
• Are created and used in the spirit of reconciliation, healing, shared understanding and respect
• Help people connect with nature and each other

There are already 10 healing forests in Canada. Your donation will support local groups’ efforts to create 10 more.

Friday is Earth Day. Let’s celebrate by acting together to heal our history and the planet.

Thank you for caring about protecting nature so it can sustain all life.
Jode Roberts
Manager, Rewilding Communities program

P.S. Donate to create healing forests for Earth Day. You’ll reignite people’s love, understanding and respect for each other and the planet — our only home.

What is a healing forest?

Healing forests are places for learning, sharing and reflecting on Canada’s history and the legacy of residential schools. Unique to each community, they can be urban or rural, big or small, an actual forest or a dedicated green space.

For example, students at Riverside School in Albert Bridge, Nova Scotia developed the Knowledge Path, a two-kilometre interactive trail through the woodland next to the school. They’ve invited Indigenous elders to share their stories at its centre, where benches encircle a concrete medicine wheel. Along the path, signs allow visitors to learn about the plants around them in English and Mi’kmaw.

Learn more: sign up for our healing forest webinar.