What is the Big Wild Challenge?

The Big Wild refers to the part of Canada that is still in its natural state, where rivers flow free, big lakes and oceans lap against wild shores and animals roam. Its vision is to keep at least half of Canada’s public land and water wild forever. The Big Wild is you and me, and every person across Canada who cares about conserving our environment.
Some amazing Big Wild Challenges include:
• a 3,100 km canoe trip through the Boreal forest of Manitoba and Ontario
• a back-packing trip in the spectacular Flathead Valley
• a trip to the Cirque of the Unclimbables in NWT’s incredible Nahanni National Park

And for 20/20 Vision BC volunteer, Pru Moore, it was a weeklong trail-building birthday party for 18 people in the Special Management Zone on the periphery of Walbran Provincial Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. A unique coastal ecosystem, the Walbran is one of the few remaining old-growth valleys left on Vancouver Island and a precious place on earth. Trail-building programmes are a strategy to create accessibility to these special ecological wilderness areas to increase public awareness, education, and create further arguments for protecting these most precious areas for generations to come. While building a bridge over a river to extend the trail through the deep woods, Pru and her group were calmed and refreshed by the sparkling clean water.
A fabulous and rewarding time was had by everyone!