Experience    –     Connect      –     Understand      –    Protect

Empowering the next generation of Salish Sea stewards!

We need your help!

We know our award-winning Floating Classroom: Exploring the Salish Sea Education Program is having a massive positive impact on the children who participate in this program. We want to make it accessible for any student or school in Greater Victoria.

Teachers have informed us that cost is a huge obstacle in being able to participate. In recent years, some schools have used funding acquired during COVID. However, those funds are running out. Even schools in higher-income districts are telling us that the cost is becoming prohibitive for them.

The Floating Classroom program must also be sustainable for Eagle Wing to run. Until now, we’ve absorbed a significant portion of the costs. We remain committed to running this as a non-profit program. With new funding, the program will be more sustainable for all involved and there will be more opportunities to expand to other schools and school districts.

• Eagle Wing contributed more than $150,000 in the first few years to get the program running smoothly.
• We would like to raise $260,000 every year to make it easily accessible for all students AND sustainable for Eagle Wing Tours to run!
• Eagle Wing Tours will continue to contribute $80,000 per year until our goals are achieved.

Your generosity will help us make this program accessible to ALL students, regardless of their background. And it will enable Eagle Wing and our partners to provide it to more children. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world through education!

When you make a donation via our partnership with Wilderness International a receipt is not automatically generated for privacy of information rules and regulations (via Payment gateway Stripe). Please send an email to kontakt@wilderness-international.org if you wish to receive a tax deductible receipt. 

Donate to our Salish Sea ambassadors

Make a difference & empower the next generation of Salish Sea Stewards. Support the future of the Salish Sea by investing in the children who will protect it! We have partnered with Wilderness International to open a donations portal to reduce the cost for all schools. *taxable receipts are provided upon request.

*When you donate to this program, show Eagle Wing your receipt and we will give you a coupon for 20% of your donation value of $100 or more.

Here are our suggested donations:

Why “Exploring the Salish Sea” exists—connection to place

The Salish Sea with its surrounding lands and rivers is home to countless species, and thousands of years of culture and history. We live in a spectacular place worth protecting—a value we want to reinforce in the youth of our community. However, many of us are losing our connection to nature.

The Floating Classroom program gives students an experience that connects them to where they live. It gives them a better understanding of why our back yard is worth protecting. This curriculum-based program uses hands-on learning both in and out of the classroom, to foster connection to place.

Since 2018, nearly 10,000 students have gone through this award-winning program and become Ambassadors of the Salish Sea. Working with our community partners, Eagle Wing leads the floating classroom as a non-profit program with the goal of allowing any student or school to participate.

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The Four-Part Education Program

MEDIA

• Greater Victoria students study the Salish Sea from a floating classroom – VIDEO CHEK News March 6, 2019
• Students sail and study the Salish Sea – ARTICLE Oak Bay News March 7, 2019
• Eco-tourism operator, schools join forces to teach kids about Salish Sea – ARTICLE Times Colonist Oct 27, 2022

Partners

Exploring the Salish Sea is partnered with Wilderness International, a non-profit dedicated to saving old-growth forests and to environmental education. This partnership enables us to operate as a not-for-profit program. 100% of your tax-deductible donation will go directly to financially supporting the Exploring the Salish Sea program and helping us empower the next generation of Salish Sea stewards! Learn more about Wilderness International

Exploring the Salish Sea would not exist without the help of our partners and community support!

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Help us protect the future of the Salish Sea. Invest in the children who will be here to watch over it!

“This program fulfills a long-time dream of ours. It’s a great success thanks to visionary partners equally committed to a common end goal—to inspire the next generation of ocean stewards. We are proud to grow this legacy to honour our families and our home—Victoria and the Salish Sea.” — Eagle Wing Tours co-owners Don Stewart and Brett Soberg

Testimonials

“[Our partnership with Eagle Wing Tours] gives our students the opportunity to connect with local experts, to physically get out on the water and to witness the diversity of this area for themselves. It helps the students build a connection with this incredible place.”

—Aaron Maxwell, principal of Rockheights Middle School, Victoria

“There’s no better way for our students to learn about the natural and cultural history of the Salish Sea than being onboard with Eagle Wing! This incredible place-based education program allows students to experience our rich marine backyard in a safe and exhilarating way that will stay with them for a lifetime.”

—Kathryn Cook, Teacher, South Park Family School and École Margaret Jenkins School

“The reason I believe so strongly in the Salish Sea program is the importance of children being able to understand and make a personal connection to the land. To create stewards of the land it starts with students getting to experience the beauty of the land and ocean. Watching a student see a whale for the first time, or watch a seal slide off the rocks into the water creates an opportunity for a learning moment that cannot be matched in the classroom.”

—Dominique Rochefort, Teacher, George Jay Elementary School

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall

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