Empowering communities with data-driven, visually engaging tools to advocate for resilient forests and stronger climate policies.
Create Meaningful Content with Us
Our Forest Carbon Project is the first of a series on forest stewardship, requested by our community advisors. Our upcoming topics will extend this work with a focus on fire, salvage logging, and regenerative forestry. We cannot do this work without the generous support of our funders and collaborators.
Our Mission
Nature Creative Commons is a collaborative initiative bringing together ecologists, data scientists, artists, designers, and communicators to create accessible, visually engaging resources that address forest carbon misinformation and promote sustainable forest stewardship. Part of this initiative leverages a diverse skill set to produce open-source communications materials, including infographics, data comics, videos, presentations, and publications. These resources aim to support communities, advocacy groups, and policymakers in understanding the critical role intact forests play in mitigating climate change and preserving biodiversity. We collaborate with First Nations, NGO’s, independent scientists and Community Forests among others.
Grassroots Beginnings
Nature Creative Commons is a project developed by the Hummingbird Collective. We began as a mentorship program supporting emerging scientists, artists and communicators in refining their creative processes and professional skills. Today, it has evolved into a collaborative initiative fostering partnerships between seasoned professionals and new talent. By sharing resources, knowledge, and networks, we create opportunities to work creatively within a distributed leadership model, ensuring diverse voices contribute to impactful forest stewardship initiatives. Learn more on our Team Page.
Our Contribution
Across British Columbia, worsening fires, floods, and climate instability are being compounded by forest mismanagement. Misinformation on old forests and carbon cycles obscures the role of unsustainable practices in these crises, threatening local resources, biodiversity, and livelihoods.
The Forest Carbon Project by Nature Creative Commons tackles this issue by sharing accessible, visually engaging, and open-source materials to help communities understand the true impact of forests and carbon. Through initiatives like the Carbon Toolkit, our first video, open access artworks and resources we’re working to foster accurate forest carbon accounting and support the protection of BC’s old-growth forests.