Earth Day 2022: Where events are being held in B.C.
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Earth Day falls on Friday, April 22, but in British Columbia, events to celebrate and honour the occasion will be held throughout the upcoming week.
Earth Day — an internationally commemorated event to celebrate our planet and the environment — carries much significance this year, after a year of cascading climate disasters in B.C.
Here's a list of some of the events happening in B.C.'s bigger municipalities (all times PT) throughout the week. Events will also be held in smaller communities across the province.
There are numerous events happening in Vancouver to mark Earth Day.
The Trout Lake community centre is hosting a nature hunt from April 22 to 30, with all those who participate receiving a packet of seeds to take home.
On April 23, advocacy organization Sea Smart is organizing a cleanup of Vancouver's Kitsilano Beach. Attendees are asked to register at the tent at the parking lot on Arbutus and McNicoll Street at 10 a.m.
And Vancouver's most enduring Earth Day tradition — a non-violent protest — will also take place in 2022.
A coalition of organizations, including Protect the Planet and Extinction Rebellion, will have a march at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, starting at Vancouver City Hall.
The Chilliwack/Vedder River Cleanup Society is hosting a river cleanup on Saturday morning at the Chilliwack Fish and Game Club.
Registration is open starting at 8:30 a.m. at the club, with the society providing the necessary cleanup equipment.
Mackin Park, in Coquitlam's Maillardville neighbourhood, will be the site of a cleanup event on Earth Day.
The event runs from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., and orientation will be near the skate park.
An event at Kamloops' Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will see "several hundred" lodgepole pine seedlings given out to attendees.
The event, organized by TRU's sustainability office, will focus on honouring Indigenous land defenders in Central and South America.
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