Your spring donation will be matched by a generous local family foundation!
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Join PSF’s accelerated action for salmon habitat restoration with a chance to double the impact of your donation!
This spring, millions of alevins have been emerging from their eggs, developing into new stages of their lifecycle, and beginning to migrate into estuaries and nearshore habitat. Amidst this season of renewal, Pacific Salmon Foundation is growing too. Our grant program is expanding in scope, and we are working in partnership on many forward-looking, game-changer habitat projects.
Over the next five years, PSF will dramatically accelerate salmon recovery and resilience province wide as we rally our partners and take action. With so many hard-working First Nations and community salmon groups raising the bar, we want to step up to help them achieve their worthy goals.
But to achieve our ambitious new targets, we need your help!
A special gift for you
So that you can show that you are proudly part of PSF’s “People for Salmon”, anyone who donates $25 or more before June 1st will receive an enamel pin of our signature yellow fish.
One project that we are thrilled to accelerate thanks to support from donors like you is nearshore habitat restoration in the Campbell River Estuary on Vancouver Island. Here, the Wei Wai Kum First Nation and Greenways Land Trust have been working together since 2019 to restore valuable eelgrass meadow habitat for chum and Chinook salmon around Mill Pond. With help from a $50,000 grant from PSF, the team will dive to transplant eelgrass throughout this summer, restoring an additional 1,000 m2 of juvenile rearing habitat of their overall goal of 6,000 m2 by 2025.
Your generous contributions will allow PSF to fund game-changers like the restoration of Sturgeon Bank in Richmond, B.C. Over years of invasive human activity, what should be a productive tidal marsh has been reduced to a sediment-poor and vegetation depleted mudflat. PSF provided more than $200,000 in funding to an innovative multiyear project led by Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC). This will provide a lifeline to hundreds of millions of out-migrating juvenile salmon, including endangered Fraser Chinook, as well as coho, sockeye, and steelhead.
DUC and partners have been using an upcycled kilometre-long pipeline to dispearse nourishing sediment across the Sturgeon Bank tidal flats to help it regenerate. Not only do projects like this help salmon thrive, but they enhance biodiversity. They have positive effects for the human population too, providing protection for coastal communities from flooding. Now that’s what we call a game-changer!
