The 2021 REEL Earth Day Challenge is a huge success thanks to the BC Film Industry and supporters like you!
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#ReelEarthDayChallenge
The 2021 REEL Earth Day Challenge is a fundraiser competition to raise money for the environment and enhance the local community. With venues ranging from pristine wilderness to immaculate heritage homes only a short distance from the city centre, Metro Vancouver Regional Parks has some of the Lower Mainland’s premier filming and production locations.
Filming in Regional Parks is one way to connect with nature. Members of the BC Film industry also live near our parks, hike the trails, and bring their families to community events. Every year the parks welcome 12 million visitors. This easy access to nature in an urban setting is unique and improves our quality of life.
Your donations during this REEL Earth Day Challenge will go directly to Pacific Parklands Foundation and be put toward the following projects (many of which are already funded!)
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Aldergrove Regional Park's forests are a significant and stunning landscape. Migrating birds rest here and the park acts as a refuge for a wide variety of species, including species at risk. The farmed area of the lower plateau was once forested and will be again with Reel Earth Day's help to rebuild this habitat corridor, remove invasive plants and fight climate change.
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Part of the Brunette-Fraser Regional Greenway, Sapperton Landing is a unique linear park highlighting the beauty and power of the mighty Fraser River. Here you can see backwater tidal channels, and woodland. Reel Earth Day funds will support the removal of invasive species and the planting of native plants to encourage salmon, bird, insect and wildlife habitat and mitigate climate change.
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A trio of restoration projects in Kanaka Creek Regional Park and Tynehead Regional Park. These projects will help Metro Vancouver Regional Parks and our planet to be the best they can be by removing invasive species threatening local habitat, promoting biodiversity by planting native plants that help native species thrive, combating climate change with new roots in the ground to sequester carbon naturally, for decades to come, make our parks more resilient, accessible and better for everyone.
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Boundary Bay Regional Park protects rare Coastal Sand Ecosystems, critically imperiled in BC due to coastal development. The Ecosytems are home to unique, culturally significant species. With Reel Earth Day’s help, the ecosystem recovery team will remove invasive species, re-establish native plants and create programs to save this rare habitat for future generations to experience and cherish.
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Lush coastal rainforest and steep canyon walls make Capilano River Regional Park unforgettable. With Reel Earth Day's support, we can replace harmful invasive species like English Ivy with the native species that make this habitat healthy, beautiful & unique. Restoring this fragmented habitat will improve the health of the river and restore vital nature corridors for wildlife and people to enjoy.
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Projects That Still Need Funding:
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In Pacific Spirit Regional Park an overgrown, weedy slope could be transformed a meadow of wildflowers for local pollinators with Reel Earth Day's support. Not only for bees and other pollinators, this project will improve water quality, and increase carbon sequestration by planting local, deeper rooting plants. The revitalized meadow could be a beautiful place to visit and reconnect with nature.
Project Goal: $10,000
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Pacific Spirit Regional Park's Western Hemlock forest has been cleared twice and is so badly damaged by human activity it is now a monoculture of dying red alders. A lack of seed sources and unnatural forest conditions results in few conifers growing here. Reel Earth Day will support the planting of these needed trees, protect against invasive species, and revive the Acadia Forest.
Project Goal: $30,000
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In the heart of Crippen Regional Park, this project will enhance the wetland at Killarney Meadow by creating a new forest. The area's condition is rapidly changing, unusual flooding caused damage and the surrounding alder forest is dying. With support from Reel Earth Day, we can plant the edge of the meadow, help control flooding, and allow the wetland to expand and a forest to thrive.
Project Goal: $35,000
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Choose the team you want to support
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The team challengers (local film crews) raise funds for Pacific Parklands Foundations' on-the-ground environmental restoration and enhancement projects in Metro Vancouver Regional Parks.
100% raised goes directly to work that protects and preserves regional parks, where many of B.C. productions have filmed over the years.
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and support local conservation efforts for a healthy planet.
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As always, a heartfelt thank you to our amazing sponsors for their generosity.
These Challenge Leaders have pledged over $90,000 in donations as "prize" top ups for the daily winning teams' fundraising totals.
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A HUGE thank you to all the donors and teams for your gamesmanship and competitive spirit in the name of our regional parks.
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