History of david suzuki foundation

Canadian nonprofit environmental organisation

The David Suzuki Foundation is a science-based non-profitenvironmental organization headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with offices in Montreal and Toronto.

It was established as a federally registered Canadian charity on January 1, 1991. By 2007, it had 40,000 donors. Its mission is to protect nature while balancing human needs.^[1] It is supported entirely by Foundation grants and donations and by 2012, 90% of its donors were Canadian.

By 2007, the Foundation employed about seventy-five staff members.^[2]

Overview

In 1989, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired a radio series by David Suzuki CC OBC FRSC, entitled It's a Matter of Survival which was published in a co-authored 1990 book by the same name.^[3][4][5] In the series and the book, described how the "first global scientific consensus" that the world was "entering an er