This November, we’ll have two exciting ‘Exploring Mushrooms’ walks with local biologist Vail Patterson.

This November, we’ll have two exciting ‘Exploring Mushrooms’ walks with local biologist Vail Patterson.

All members of Nature Salt Spring are welcome to join our group of bird enthusiasts. No expertise needed! Xwaaqw’um offers a wonderful mix of fields, forest, marsh, and shoreline habitats.

On the lower reaches of Erskine Mountain, the forest is unique – amazingly different from other parts of Salt Spring. Near the beginning of the trail there are deciduous trees and many young conifers starting out on their journey in life. We will learn several species, and focus especially on the Hemlock, which is surprisingly prolific in this location.

Join us for a special presentation about innovative bird conservation work at the local, provincial, national  levels by Salt Spring bird specialists, Dr. Louise Blight and Pete Davidson.

All members of Nature Salt Spring are welcome to join our group of bird enthusiasts. No expertise needed! Xwaaqw’um offers a wonderful mix of fields, forest, marsh, and shoreline habitats.

All members of Nature Salt Spring are welcome to join our group of bird enthusiasts. No expertise needed! Xwaaqw’um offers a wonderful mix of fields, forest, marsh, and shoreline habitats.

All members of Nature Salt Spring are welcome to join our group of bird enthusiasts. No expertise needed! Xwaaqw’um offers a wonderful mix of fields, forest, marsh, and shoreline habitats.

Join us for one of the most amazing natural history events of the year! It’s Raptor migration time on Southern Vancouver Island in the Metchosin/ East Sooke area. Raptors will be gathering in the hundreds and even the thousands, preparing to cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca. 

Briony Penn will share her deep connections with Herring that have been built through family, historical studies, biological and geographical studies, and relationships with First Nations in the Salish Sea and along the BC Coast.

Family Seashore Explorations with Kathleen Maser and NSS Naturalists

Through colourful images and fascinating natural history, this presentation will explore the tide-pools and shallows of the Salish Sea to discover some fascinating invertebrate animals.

This seashore field trip will reveal organisms that live above, on, and below the sandy/muddy Harbour surfaces

This year's second most popular film at the SS Film Festival – SALMON SECRETS – looks at the impacts of salmon farming through the eyes of those fighting to protect wild salmon from extinction.

Learn more about bats around your house and around SSI and contribute to bat studies.

Join us early in the morning to hear the delightful melodies of our local birds, in beautiful Xwaaqw’um, Burgoyne provincial Park, where we birders walk, listen and learn.

Dr. Steven Earle launches his new book, Runaway Climate: What the geological past can tell us about the coming climate change catastrophe.

Join us early in the morning to hear the delightful melodies of our local birds, in beautiful Xwaaqw’um, Burgoyne provincial Park, where we birders walk, listen and learn.

Pat and Rosemarie Keough will share their superbly-illustrated Antarctica lecture originally prepared for Earth Day 2023, hosted by the National Natural History and Sciences Museum, University of Lisbon, in Portugal

Join us early in the morning to hear the delightful melodies of our local birds, in beautiful Xwaaqw’um, Burgoyne provincial Park, where we birders walk, listen and learn.

Join us early in the morning to hear the delightful melodies of our local birds, in beautiful Xwaaqw’um, Burgoyne provincial Park, where we birders walk, listen and learn.

Liam will discuss biodiversity hotspots in the Salish Sea, how local communities are integral to their identification and conservation.

Join us early in the morning to hear the delightful melodies of our local birds, in beautiful Xwaaqw’um, Burgoyne provincial Park, where we birders walk, listen and learn.

Join us early in the morning to hear the delightful melodies of our local birds, in beautiful Xwaaqw’um, Burgoyne provincial Park, where we birders walk, listen and learn.

Join us early in the morning to hear the delightful melodies of our local birds, in beautiful Xwaaqw’um, Burgoyne provincial Park, where we birders walk, listen and learn.

David Denning is a marine naturalist and retired educational filmmaker who has lived on Salt Spring for 30 years. This is a prelude to our May-June Nature Extravaganza focused on the local marine Environments. The field trip is limited to 16 people and registration is required

The Sonoran Desert is one of four deserts in the American Southwest. Dave Manning, Pender resident and long-time photographer, nature writer and best-selling author of The Old Man and the Vultures, invites you to saunter along with him as he gets close up to cougars, skunks, rattlesnakes and other inhabitants in this wild landscape.

This presentation will provide an overview of herring biology, their importance in the food web, the wonders of the Salish Sea spawning population, and our historical relationship with herring.

In January of 2008, Salt Spring couple, David Denning and Deborah Miller received an invitation to join six 'friends of a friend' on a 16-day rafting expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.