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Keeping It Living
Project Watershed has been conducting the Keeping It Living Campaign to raise awareness and funds for the protection and restoration of the K’omoks Estuary since 2009.
Keeping It Living
Kus-kus-sum
Keeping It Living Vision Document
Limited Edition Art Fundraiser
Artists
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Kus-kus-sum Morphing Video
Project Watershed worked with local artist Robert Lundquist to create this video which outlines how nature will be restored at Kus-kus-sum.
E Card
Donate money in someone`s name and they receive a meaningful e-card. E-cards will be delivered on the date you specify.
Alternative Gifts from Project Watershed
With our alternative gift cards you can make a donation in someone’s name instead of getting them a traditional gift.
Business Sponsorship
Project Watershed is looking for contributions from businesses to support our Keeping it Living initiatives. This includes the purchase and restoration of the Kus-kus-sum site and general outreach and education. The various sponsorship opportunities available to businesses include sponsorship, event sponsorship, gifts for client appreciation, and goods and services donations.
Estuary Stewardship
We have adopted the theme Keeping It Living, shared with us by Traditional Hereditary Chief Kwakxsistala Adam Dick, which describes indigenous practices that have been applied over the centuries to preserve plants, animals, and their habitat. The words encompass resource conservation and sustainability as well as constraints against taking too much or wasting abundant resources. The theme Keeping It Living embraces a commitment to an enduring and intentional strategy and represents a philosophical approach that has both an ethical and moral basis for protecting and restoring the Estuary.
For those of us who live in or visit the Comox Valley, it means connecting and reconnecting with the natural world of which we are a part, enjoying its wonder and its life forces while building a human community that celebrates and cherishes the presence of this natural world around which we have gathered.
Dan Buffett, Regional Biologist, Ducks Unlimited Canada, 2008
We envision the Estuary as a place accessible to residents and visitors in such a way that it does not diminish the estuary’s ability to flourish. To enable this to occur, it is important for all political jurisdictions in the Comox Valley to come together to make the vision of Keeping It Living a reality. It requires the voice and passion of the citizens who live in this magnificent valley as well as their environmental organizations – their biologists, naturalists, and ecologists – and the K’omoks First Nation’s teachers and Elders – all of whom speak for and on behalf of life within the estuary, to join as partners in this collaborative effort to protect and restore the Courtenay River Estuary.