Grassroots, Community Based Advocacy Organization
Friends of Clayoquot Sound (FOCS) is a grassroots,  community-based advocacy organization that was established in 1979. Our mission is to protect the Clayoquot Sound ecosystem, which includes the pristine ocean waters, the ancient temperate rainforest, the watershed valleys, and the bears, eagles, salmon and other wildlife. We practice environmental protection with a dignified and peaceful show of strength.

Preserve natural biological diversity and ecosystem dynamics
The goals of the FOCS is to preserve natural biological diversity and ecosystem dynamics, concentrating on Clayoquot Sound's ocean and forest and to stimulate creation of a conservation-based society, with a corresponding conservation-based economy.

Forest and Aquaculture Campaigns
Friends of Clayoquot Sound run two campaigns, forest and aquaculture. Our forest campaign focuses on achieving protection for Clayoquot Sound's remaining intact, completely unlogged, ancient temperate rainforest valleys. Our aquaculture campaign advocates removal of open net-cage salmon farms from the ocean waters of Clayoquot Sound and BC and pressures for a change to closed containment tanks with waste treatment. In our campaigns, we use public education, markets education, research, monitoring, negotiations and peaceful direct action. We inform individual and corporate consumers about the environmentally harmful effects of their purchasing choices and work to shift their purchasing to "greener" alternatives.

Raising Global Awareness ofTemperate Rainforests
Although we are a small local group, focused mainly on protecting Clayoquot Sound, our work has a wider impact. FOCS is a key group responsible for raising the profile of temperate rainforests from unknown to globally recognized, following the mass logging protests in Clayoquot Sound in 1993 which received worldwide attention.

I'd like to help save it but how do I pronounce it?
Clayoquot Sound is pronounced Cla-kwhat Sound. Okay, now that you know how to say it, let's work together and save it.

How You Can Help
Become a Friends of Clayoquot Sound member or Donor. Your donation enables us to protect the wildlife and wilderness of Clayoquot Sound. Supporting our efforts helps to ensure that when you visit Tofino, you will be able to enjoy the pristine waters and forests of our beautiful Clayoquot Sound.

Visit Us When You Are in Tofino
Come by our office when you are visiting Tofino and learn more about how you can help protect the pristine environment of Clayoquot Sound. We are located at 331 Neill Street, in downtown Tofino. Check our location on the GoTofino Map. We welcome your input and your support.

Photographs courtesy of Tofino Photography