A group of alumni, young people who spent their childhood in and around the Children's Forest, created this video showcasing it, and the history of our society's efforts to protect it.
You can help us purchase the Children's Forest and make this exciting, bold vision come true - Imagine... a forest in trust to the children!
Together we can preserve this rich, coastal temperate rainforest and create a legacy of wilderness to nurture, inspire, and teach children for generations to come. We're doing something truly magnificent for children, humanity, and the earth. In that, we want you to join us.
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Land Acknowledgement
The directors of the Children's Forest Trust respectfully acknowledge that the lands and waters of the Children's Forest are within the unceded and ancestral territories of the Klahoose, Homolco and Tla'amin Nations. Humans have been a part of this ecosystem since time immemorial. Long before this organization began building relationships of reciprocity between children and the natural world, people stewarded these lands, harvested resources and saw themselves as in relation to the web of life and bundle of relations that we today humbly call the Children's Forest.
Today, the Children's Forest Trust is in dialogue with the Klahoose First Nation, which has expressed formal support for the project, and has engaged— through a partnership with the Cortes Island Academy— in an Ayajuthem language project, in which local youth worked with Klahoose Elder Jesse Louie to create signage which identifies the the traditional names for flora found in the Children's Forest. While the directors of the Children's Forest Trust acknowledge that we have much to learn about decolonization, we are committed to pursuing meaningful reconciliation and learning how to conduct conservation, education and research on unceded territory in a good way.