Snapshot

They want to pave paradise!

All over Kingston – one of 15 cities in Canada predicted to become a heat island – our cooling, carbon-storing trees are being destroyed. We have identified more than 20 past or proposed clearcuts in the city – mainly to build unaffordable homes. Developers are paving over our forests – and even want to pave over our wetlands – with little thought to the increasing climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, neighbourhood rights, and the local Indigenous population.

Help us save our urban forests and wetlands – donate today!

Kingston ON, Canada

Stop the Chop! Save Our Urban Forests and Wetlands!

$15,270 Raised
75 Donors
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Goal: $50,000
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Kathleen O’Hara
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Story

Before….and Now.

Our forests and wetlands need your help!

As the climate crisis is devastating our planet, the future of Kingston’s nearest downtown forest and wetland is going before the Ontario Land Tribunal. Our previous City Council voted against the plan but a developer is still trying to push through the clearcutting of 37 acres – 1800 trees – beside a sacred burial ground for the Indigenous people of the area. This clearcutting would include a 220-year-old white oak tree (shown below), also sacred to the local Indigenous community.

You can help us defend City Council’s decision to stop this disastrous plan at the Tribunal. We need to hire expert witnesses such as hydrogeologists, wetland biologists, and ecotoxicologists to present our case against a very wealthy developer. This will cost thousands of dollars, but the fight is worth it!

Please help us prevent forest and wetland destruction.

Every donation counts!

The wetlands now.

The proposed development.

 

 

In partnership with No Clearcuts Kingston.

Name Donation Date
Anonymous $250 May 23, 2023 2:32 pm
James Swift $260 May 23, 2023 1:12 pm
Angela Fallow $1,000 May 16, 2023 1:22 am
Anonymous $100 May 3, 2023 7:38 pm
Liam Lewis $10 April 28, 2023 4:09 pm
Jane and Paul Kelly $30 April 24, 2023 4:27 pm
Margaret Cowtan $250 April 23, 2023 11:29 am
Dawn Crawford $100 April 22, 2023 8:51 pm
Elaine Davies $255 April 21, 2023 2:27 pm
William Depew $1,000 April 19, 2023 12:32 pm
Wren Montgomery $300 April 13, 2023 1:17 am
Danielle Deptuck $10 April 11, 2023 1:09 pm
Mary Farrar $100 April 7, 2023 5:59 pm
Vision for Kingston $1,000 March 29, 2023 1:46 pm
Barbara Burger $100 March 22, 2023 12:49 pm
Kathryn Hodgson-Gupta $100 March 21, 2023 11:46 am
June Blackburn $50 March 20, 2023 9:34 pm
Tara Kainer $25 March 20, 2023 6:05 pm
Mark Sibley $55 March 11, 2023 3:33 pm
Jerri Jerreat $100 March 9, 2023 8:44 pm
Larry Scanlan $50 March 8, 2023 10:47 pm
Anonymous $50 March 8, 2023 8:26 pm
Anonymous $100 March 7, 2023 8:47 pm
Robert MacInnes $500 March 2, 2023 7:28 pm
Elizabeth Harrison $200 February 28, 2023 4:56 pm
Bill Jennings $250 February 23, 2023 4:15 pm
Jane Reeves $255 February 23, 2023 3:23 am
Susan Clinton $100 February 21, 2023 12:55 am
Lib Spry $100 February 18, 2023 1:31 pm
Anonymous $110 February 17, 2023 8:52 pm
Dugald Carmichael $1,060 February 17, 2023 7:37 pm
Anonymous $50 February 15, 2023 8:20 pm
Liz Whelpdale $50 February 15, 2023 7:46 pm
Anonymous $100 February 14, 2023 4:08 pm
Anonymous $100 February 8, 2023 2:17 pm
Marian Blonde $50 February 8, 2023 1:35 pm
John Turgoose $55 February 7, 2023 2:16 pm
Anonymous $100 February 7, 2023 5:12 am
Elinor Rush $50 February 7, 2023 2:17 am
Valerie Kelly $60 February 7, 2023 1:57 am
Heather McGregor $100 February 7, 2023 1:30 am
Paul Gervan $50 February 6, 2023 11:33 pm
Walter Tedman $55 February 6, 2023 9:37 pm
Anonymous $250 February 3, 2023 4:23 pm
Ghislaine Marcotte $100 February 3, 2023 2:32 pm
John GRENVILLE $1,030 February 3, 2023 11:57 am
Derek Redmond $50 January 30, 2023 3:29 am
Emily M Hill $100 January 29, 2023 8:15 pm
Anonymous $100 January 2, 2023 1:30 pm
Don Raddon $165 December 31, 2022 3:38 pm
Carol Wladyka $53 December 29, 2022 9:27 pm
Gonny Moncur $105 December 29, 2022 3:08 pm
Dallis Smith $100 December 29, 2022 3:01 pm
Anonymous $100 December 29, 2022 2:44 pm
Wilma Kenny $100 December 28, 2022 10:58 pm
Emily M Hill $108 December 28, 2022 7:49 pm
maureen buchanan $250 December 28, 2022 3:23 am
Yvonne Hiemstra $105 December 28, 2022 2:05 am
Anonymous $55 December 27, 2022 8:09 pm
Marie Lloyd $75 December 27, 2022 4:58 pm
Nikki Alward $110 December 20, 2022 12:16 am
Hal Richardson $100 December 16, 2022 7:44 pm
Joan Lee $1,005 December 8, 2022 6:03 pm
Annabel Mills $510 November 30, 2022 4:50 am
Yvonne Hiemstra $110 November 30, 2022 1:18 am
Vicki Schmolka $100 November 29, 2022 12:42 pm
Richard Moulton $25 November 29, 2022 3:15 am
Ceredwyn Hill $100 November 29, 2022 12:18 am
Bruce Hill $100 November 29, 2022 12:14 am
Ariel Salzmann $250 November 28, 2022 8:26 pm
Mary Farrar $100 November 28, 2022 7:36 pm
Rosemary Kozak $100 November 28, 2022 7:28 pm
Mary Jane Philp $105 November 28, 2022 4:54 pm
James Brown $1,025 November 28, 2022 4:45 pm
John GRENVILLE $255 November 28, 2022 4:04 pm