Get active: take action!
We live in a time when our actions or inaction will have a tremendous impact on future generations. Will we leave our children a planet with fresh air and clean water, intact forests and healthy ecosystems? Or will we leave them a plundered and polluted planet where the spotted owl, woodland caribou, monarch butterfly and the killer whale no longer exist?
Download our petitions
Download them so you can print them yourself -- encourage your friends and family to sign them and mail them back to us. Every signature helps! Following is a list of petitions that are available for download. Our address is provided at the bottom of the petition.
- Oppose the Gateway Project. ->campaign ->download petition
- Save the Taku! ->campaign ->download petition
- Orca's and Toxins. ->campaign ->download petition
- Save BC's parks. ->campaign ->download petition
- Orca's and Toxins. ->campaign ->download petition
Send an electronic opinion card
Send an opinion card to decision makers, and make your voice heard!
Think of what a tremendous change it would make to society if each of us dedicated just half an hour a week to becoming active citizens. Below are some of the ways you can become more involved in helping to preserve earth's wild places and endangered species:
Subscribe to our WCWC E-lert List, which is an action-oriented special announcement and action email list. By subscribing you will receive a weekly email asking you to take some form of action to protect our environment.
Call, write to or meet with your elected representative. Writing a personal letters, calling your elected official or asking for a meeting has tremndous impact. If you decide to call don't feel nervous, you often do actually not get to talk to your Member of the Legislated Assembly (MLA), usually you will speak to the secretary or constituency assistant who will convey your message to the MLA. Remember that your MLA is elected to represent the views of their constituents!
Find your provincial representative in Western Canada:
Find your federal representative Member of Parliament (MP) here.
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper and let them know that the issue you are concerned about matters to you. Here are some tips for writing letters to the editor.
Links to some of the main national and BC newspapers:
| National Newspapers | |
| Globe and Mail | letters@globeandmail.ca |
| National Post | letters@nationalpost.com |
| Financial Post | fpqueries@nationalpost.com |
| BC Newspapers | |
| Alberni Valley Times | avtimes@home.com |
| Chilliwack Progress | publisher@theprogress.com |
| Chilliwack Times | kgoudswaard@chilliwacktimes.com |
| Cranbrook Daily Townsman | coulter@dailytownsman.com |
| Hope Standard | news@hopestandard.com |
| Kamloops Daily News | kamloopsnews@telus.net |
| Kelowna Capital News | edit@kelownacapnews.com |
| Nelson Daily News | news@nelsondailynews.com |
| North Shore News | tpeters@nsnews.com |
| Prince George Citizen | letters@princegeorgecitizen.com |
| Vancouver Sun | sunletters@pacpress.southam.ca |
| Vancouver Province | provletters@pacpress.southam.ca |
| Victoria Times-Colonist | letters@times-colonist.com |
You can also join our grassroots distribution team and help distribute our educational newspapers in your neighbourhood. Please contact JP LeFrank at our office for more information.
Learn about volunteering some of your time to help save wilderness and wildlife. Join 25,000 others across the country and become a member of the Wilderness Committee.
Calculate your ecological footprint. Find out how you can minimize your personal impact on the environment.
