HerringFest tickets are now available!
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HerringFest tickets are now available! ✳ Click here to learn more! ✳
Striving for Sustainability in the Salish Sea
Conservancy Hornby Island is dedicated to protecting the land and marine environments around Hornby Island, in the traditional unceded territory of the K'ómoks First Nation.
Your support goes a long way. Consider donating today.
Register now for our Sea Life Boat Trips, Herring School, or this year’s Herring Ball!
Thursday, March 7th, the opening of the Hornby Arts’ HerringFest art show will kick off the 2024 HerringFest festivities! This famous community-inclusive exhibition will showcase marine-themed works of varied mediums and disciplines. The colours, textures, subject matter, and diversity of the pieces are sure to inspire!
CHI is helping Project Watershed study where other key forage fish like Pacific sand lance and surf smelt are spawning around Hornby.
Clean Blue Green is CHI’s collection of information dedicated to more natural/less toxic alternatives and recipes for household, garden and body care products, as well as solutions for green boating and detoxing your workshop.
As Summertime approaches so does the need for measures of protection from the sun including sunscreen products. Sadly, many of these contain ingredients harmful to the world’s coral reefs and aquatic life. In fact the entire state of Hawaii and some global marine preserves have banned two sunscreen ingredients: oxybenzone and octinoxate.
Spring Greetings, Everyone! Part 2 of our Detox your Home campaign offers green solutions for dealing with your never-ending laundry pile! Part 1 shared information about some of the dangers of toxic laundry products.
Season’s Greetings! This chapter of CHI’s Clean Blue Green program offers suggestions for a more ecologically sustainable holiday season. Most of us look forward to enjoying Christmas, Chanukah, New Year’s and other winter celebrations, but in our modern commercialized world, this can also be a time of unnecessary excess.
Conservancy Hornby Island is a non-profit volunteer-based organization that relies on support from people like you to fund campaigns and events to protect land and sea environments of the Salish Sea.
All donations support Conservancy Hornby Island's Marine Conservation Campaign and Climate Change Project and will receive an instant charitable tax receipt.
LEARN MORE about why HERRING NEED YOUR HELP, and watch our video, Pacific Herring: Small Fish – Big Problem.
Please REPORT any Dead Bats found before May 31st for White Nose Disease testing!
Sadly, bat researchers are concerned that the arrival of white-nose syndrome (WNS) in BC is imminent. Last year the fungus that causes WNS was detected in bat feces from Grand Forks, BC. But as of yet, no actual bats with WNS have been found here. This disease, first detected in New York State in 2006, is now in western and central Washington, as well as south-central Alberta.