Our supporters come from all over the world and from right here in Tofino. They are united by a love for nature and a special appreciation for the beauty and unique value of Clayoquot Sound.
Virginia Thompson, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada writes:
My relationship with Clayoquot Sound began thirty years ago when I visited with my husband to be. Tofino was still a small fishing village with few tourists, and Long Beach was deserted, magnificent in its lonely splendour. I fell in love with Clayoquot Sound on that fateful trip and it has been a life-long love affair.
Although I have travelled to many of the world's most beautiful places, never have I found a place that so touched me. There is a primordial beauty in the Sound that is powerful, spiritual. When I visit, mysteriously, I always feel I have come home. In 1989, we brought our children for their first visit. It was then that I joined FOCS which had already been fighting for 14 years to preserve this unique place. In 1993, I returned to stand on the blockades to protect the temperate rainforest after Mike Harcourt's government opened the door for logging. The Peace Camp and the blockades were an outpouring of love and caring for this place by the community, as well as by people from all over Canada and the world. Never before had I experienced such a sense of community, such respect for one another, friend and foe, and for the earth. FOCS was at the heart of these expressions and remains perhaps the most authentic environmental group I know precisely because it is a grassroots organisation. As part of the local community, the Friends know and love Clayoquot Sound and understand its issues intimately.
However, the protection of the Sound cannot be left only to the local community. As some of the last intact temperate rainforest on earth, with the largest cluster of pristine valleys remaining on Vancouver Island, Clayoquot Sound is a rare treasure which we have a responsibility to preserve not only for our country, but for the world, for ourselves and for our children.
Friends of Clayoquot Sound
PO Box 489, 331 Neill St., Tofino BC V0R 2Z0
Tel: 250-725-4218 Fax: 250-725-2527
Email: info@focs.ca
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