As we previously blogged, FNA was very pleased to partner with WWF-Canada for the 2010 CN Tower Climb that took place this past weekend in Toronto. We are eagerly awaiting the winners of our donation of a trip for two to Churchill to see the polar bears!
The event was a great success, with a record breaking 6,420 climbers over $1.2 million raised from the Team and the Public Climbs. Here are some images of the event!
All images © WWF-Canada/Ken Mak
With the success of our partnership with WWF-Canada for Earth Hour, we are extremely pleased to be offering a trip for 2 to see the polar bears of Churchill to the winning contestant of the 20th Annual CN Tower Climb for WWF-Canada in Toronto. The public climb takes place on Saturday, April 17. This is WWF-Canada’s largest fundraising event, with each climber needing to fundraise a minimum of $75 to participate in the event. Every year, thousands of people participate and climb the CN Tower’s 1,776 steps (a total of 144 flights) in approximately 30-40 minutes! We’re out of breath just thinking about that!
Our company goal next year is to have an FNA team take part in this fantastic event. Don’t worry – we are implementing an exercise training strategy ASAP!
Check out the video below of the 2009 CN Tower Climb!
We are very happy to congratulate Nayab and Mehmodah of Ellen Fairclough P.S. in Markham, Ontario who are the winners of WWF-Canada’s Earth Hour video contest! Both students will be joining us up in Churchill this autumn to experience a 3-night Enthusiast level Polar Bears in Churchill adventure.
We would also like to congratulate everybody who participated in Earth Hour this year and who showcased their passion for this amazing cause by sharing thousands of images and video to WWF-Canada’s Earth Hour website.
Here is the winning video by Nayab and Mehmodah!
We are very excited to be partnering again with WWF-Canada to promote Earth Hour, an event that takes place on March 27, 2010 at 8:30 pm where hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for an hour to demand action on climate change.
This year, Earth Hour has a new contest where people can upload a photo essay or video to tell WWF-Canada what steps they are taking for the planet – big or small. Once uploaded, they are entered to win a trip for two to see polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba with us – Frontiers North!
We continuously blogged about our 2009 Earth Hour contest winner and we are looking forward to supporting the event again by hosting our excited 2010 winners up in Churchill. We are also supporting the cause by turning off our own office lights on Friday, March 26 for an entire day to do our part to raise awareness for Earth Hour.
Here is our video Blog from the North of our 2009 Earth Hour winner’s trip to Churchill and other promotional Earth Hour videos:
The Circle is a new magazine published four times a year by the WWF International Arctic Programme. The goal of the magazine is to inform decision-makers, scientists and the interested public about arctic environmental and development issues. It is distributed to over 3,000 arctic stakeholders worldwide, including government officials and publicly-elected representatives, indigenous organisations, conservationists, scientists, NGOs, libraries, and business executives.
In the latest edition, our partnership with PBI and WWF, along with our Tundra Buggy One is featured. Click on the image below to view the latest edition of The Circle!
This morning the Olympic Torch Relay made its way to Churchill. The whole town was a buzz as many local people from the community took part in the relay. Coca-Cola along with RBC and WWF were on hand to present the torch, along with the Manitoba Premier, Greg Selinger, and former minister of culture, heritage and tourism (now minister of aboriginal and northern affairs) Eric Robinson.
Here are some video clips of the event!
A few months ago we blogged about how we partnered with WWF-Canada to further increase awareness of Earth Hour by donating a trip for two to Churchill.
The moment arrived last weekend where we finally hosted our contest winners. Check out their experience in our most recent Blog from the North!
We had two very special guests join us at our FNA office in Churchill and Tundra Buggy® Launch site this morning to help celebrate Halloween. Buggy Bear and WWF-Canada’s Panda handed out candy to excited guests as they boarded their Tundra Buggies for the day.
We are very fortunate to have a great partnerships with organizations like PBI and WWF-Canada that help us host world-renowned polar bear researches and scientists (or as we like to call them, “Species Experts”!) to Churchill every autumn. We have a great line-up that will be out on our Lodge to provide our guests the added-value opportunity to learn first-hand about polar bears in their natural environments and the effects they face from climate change.
Please take a minute and read their bios. They’re pretty awesome and we can’t wait to work with them this year!
BTW, we celebrated Earth Hour here in the office all day Friday, March 27th, the day before Earth Hour occurred on Saturday, March 28th at 8:30 P.M. local time. Here are some images Laura F captured of our ‘celebration’.
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