Living closer to walkable green spaces helps you live longer—no matter what your age, general health or income is.
Who we are
We’re on a mission to make it easier for all Canadians to connect with nature, because time outside is essential for our well-being. By creating opportunities to experience the outdoors, we're improving health, inspiring joy, and growing stewardship.
The heart of it? Getting outside is one of the most powerful ways to improve your health—while inspiring us to protect the places we love.
Backed by hundreds of studies over several decades, research suggests that connecting to nature is one of the best things you can do to improve your health and the health of the planet.
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Creating meaningful connections to nature across Canada takes all of us—through schools, healthcare, and workplaces—working together to make time outside part of everyday life.
Students across Canada are leading projects to track, enhance, and steward biodiversity on their school grounds. Connecting to nature improves learning outcomes, supports student health, and empowers young people to protect their future.
By connecting kids to nature and real examples of nature conservation, we are fostering a culture of stewardship and building broad support for protected areas.
Driven by health care providers, nature prescriptions are a simple but powerful strategy for getting people outside and connecting them to nature for their health. PaRx is a 'Made in Canada' solution to the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss.
PaRx is Canada's first national nature prescription program, and has been endorsed by over 100 Canadian health organizations, including the Canadian Medical Association.
Canadians spend nearly 100,000 hours at work in their lifetime. Integrating opportunities to connect to nature supports mental health, team building and kindness, and improves productivity at work.
Taking part in nature-based initiatives improves personal health while making a meaningful impact in the community.
January is often a cozy month, marked by warm lights in the early evenings, blankets, and quiet routines settling in after the holidays. But it’s also one of the most rewarding times to step outside.
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