This story involves you from Ian Davies, the grandson of Mabel and Reginald Whittemore, the inspiring founders of our group. As we speak, Ian is a Guardian of Nature month-to-month donor and right here he shares some reflections on how his household formed his love for nature and his dedication to motion. I hope you see a few of your individual values mirrored right here!
Nature has all the time been a part of our household story. My appreciation for nature got here, properly, naturally! Our household cottage in Muskoka has been a part of us for practically 100 years — a number of the unique cabin is a part of the cottage right this moment. You may see the sunshine coming in between the cabin boards going through the lake, and within the winter-time snow comes into the residing and eating room. It’s a magical place that rooted my love for nature.
My Dad was an entomologist (his specialty was black flies) and my mum labored as his lab assistant earlier than they received married and began a household. We had been on the cottage each summer time as children and youths. I’ve vivid recollections of going for walks in nature and studying about vegetation, birds, and, in fact, bugs. My Dad taught my brother and me learn how to stun flies to get them into specimen bottles. Our associates had been very impressed we knew learn how to stun flies!
What would my grandparents take into consideration the state of nature right this moment? Nicely, the state of nature right this moment is frightening and troubling. Lack of habitat, warming oceans, wildfires, flooding — there’s heaps to be involved about. It’s horrible what’s occurring — I feel my grandparents would see it like a runaway prepare. However there may be hope that we are able to halt and reverse this. And I do know they’d discover hope.
You will discover hope in schooling. My mom and grandmother, Mabel Frances beloved instructing. They each beloved inspiring children, and folks of all ages, to study extra concerning the pure world, and perceive that every little thing in nature is interconnected.
Mabel Frances Whittemore
Training is paramount — we are able to’t create change until we now have sufficient individuals who care and who demand motion to sort things which are mistaken. And giving to Nature Canada offers me hope. I’m a Guardian of Nature month-to-month donor and I’m proud to see this group push the envelope, deliver individuals collectively, and lift our voices for nature. Each month, I do know that my reward is at work saving nature, and it’s being mixed with the presents of different caring and passionate Canadians. I hope everybody studying this can contemplate what they will do to assist nature — and giving right this moment is a strategy to discover hope!
