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May 13, 2025

“A Place That Heals”: Whistling Gardens and PaRx Partner to Support Community Health Through Nature

Whistling Gardens is now part of Canada’s nature prescription program through a new partnership with PaRx. Learn how this serene space is helping people heal.

April 9, 2025

PaRx People: A Conversation with Dr. Won Sop Shin

Hear from a former Minister of the Korea Forest Service about his unique path from forest therapy researcher to groundbreaking policymaker, and how his cultural heritage shapes his approach to nature and human health.

April 7, 2025

PaRx and Vancouver Art Gallery Partner to Promote Health Through Nature and Art

This first-of-its-kind collaboration integrates artistic expression with time spent in nature, inspiring patients to connect with the land, their communities, and themselves.

February 7, 2025

PaRx Day in Ontario: How One Community is Embracing the Nature-Health Movement

Learn more about the inaugural PaRx Day at Scanlon Creek Conservation Area, hosted by the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, where Dr. Jake Zamora connected with his local conservation area to promote nature for health.

January 22, 2025

Announcing a New Collaboration Between PaRx and Kawartha Conservation

Learn all about how healthcare providers in the Kawarthas can now prescribe discounted visits to Kawartha Conservation areas as a part of the PaRx program.

December 2, 2024

Announcing a New Collaboration Between PaRx and Conservation Halton

Read all about how Halton community clinicians can now prescribe free visits to Conservation Halton parks for health.

November 29, 2024

PaRx People: A Conversation with Elena Rios

Hear from a wildland firefighter, Indigenous Azteca dancer and nature therapy guide about how connecting with nature helps her and her colleagues stay healthy amidst intensifying fire seasons due to climate change.

November 4, 2024

Celebrating Dr. Melissa Lem: Winner of the 2024 Canadian Eco-Hero Award

Dr. Melissa Lem, Director of PaRx, has been honored as Planet in Focus’ 2024 Canadian Eco-Hero, joining a distinguished group that includes David Suzuki, Chris Hadfield, and Margaret Atwood.

October 30, 2024

Not-So-Little Symphony: Recordings From Parks Bring Health Benefits to Those Who Need Them

Gain insight into how listening to nature sounds, such as the ones Little Symphony use in their music, can offer an accessible form of therapy for patients in healthcare settings.

September 26, 2024

From Skeptic to Believer: Celebrating One Million Nature Prescriptions with Author Misty Pratt

Misty Pratt shares her experience of connecting to nature for her health—just one story of one million nature prescriptions prescribed.

July 29, 2024

Announcing a new collaboration between PaRx and Lime

Read all about PaRx's new partnership with national micromobility company, Lime: making it easier for Canadians to access nature for their health.

June 24, 2024

PaRx People: A Conversation with Christina Keys and Dr. Eugenie Waters

Read about why neighbourhood nature access is so important to these moms and community leaders, the how-tos—and unexpected benefits—of establishing school native plant gardens, and more.

April 22, 2024

Announcing a new collaboration between PaRx and Evo Car Share

Learn about how PaRx's latest collaboration with BC's eco friendly car sharing service is reducing transportation barriers for accessing nature for health.

March 19, 2024

Announcing a new collaboration between PaRx and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Learn about PaRx’s brand-new partnership with TRCA helping connect patients to outdoor recreational opportunities across the Greater Toronto Area.

February 29, 2024

PaRx People: A Conversation with Gregor Robertson

Learn how a renowned business leader and Vancouver’s longest-serving mayor is applying lessons from his early years outdoors and as an organic farmer to his ongoing mission to build a healthy, biodiverse world with vibrant and inclusive cities.

January 29, 2024

Leaders in Health and Sustainability Gather to Celebrate PaRx!

Read about how dozens of leaders and supporters of health and sustainability gathered to celebrate the three-year anniversary of PaRx and look towards the future of the nature and health movement in Canada.

October 30, 2023

PaRx People: A Conversation with Catherine McKenna

Hear insights from a global leader in climate and nature solutions about why empowering women to develop nature-based solutions for climate change is essential, how her early connections to nature still influence her life and career today, and more.

October 3, 2023

PaRx Ties for Canada’s 2024 Clean50 Top Project of the Year

Read all about how PaRx was voted Clean50 Top Project of the year by Canada's leaders in sustainability on September 28th in Toronto at the Clean50 Summit, designed to recognize actionable solutions for climate resiliency that can be implemented and scaled across Canada and the world.

September 27, 2023

Announcing a New Collaboration Between PaRx and Your Toronto Zoo

Learn about PaRx’s new ground-breaking partnership with Canada’s largest Zoo, and how we're helping connect patients to biodiverse, immersive environments from around the world.

August 30, 2023

Announcing a New Collaboration between PaRx and the Canadian Museum of Nature

Read all about PaRx's exciting new collaboration with Canada's national natural-history museum, and how we're working together to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of, and connection to, the natural world.

July 22, 2023

PaRx Prescribers Across Canada Celebrate Parks Day with a Walk in Nature

Discover how PaRx prescribers celebrated the vital role parks play in healthy, vibrant communities for Parks Day 2023.

July 8, 2023

PaRx People: A Conversation with Dr. Anna Gunz and Dr. Kawmadi Abeytunge

Read all about how a paediatrician and resident are connecting young patients and families to nature in their hospital in London, ON, and how essential outdoor time has been for their own health and wellbeing.

June 26, 2023

PaRx named a key partner in new €6.3million international project on nature-based therapies

The four-year, EU-funded RESONATE project (Building individual and community RESilience thrOugh NATurE-based therapies) will deepen our knowledge about the connections between nature and health.

June 15, 2023

BCRPA Champions PaRx for June is Recreation and Parks Month

In collaboration with PaRx, communities across BC are hosting outdoor activities to celebrate June is Recreation and Parks Month and highlight the health benefits of nature.

April 28, 2023

PaRx People: A Conversation with Dr. Amir Khan

Learn from a renowned UK family physician, nature champion, avid gardener and television star about his unique career path, being an effective storyteller, the importance of nature equity, and more.

December 30, 2022

PaRx People: A Conversation with Florence Williams

Discover insights from an award-winning author about the science behind her seminal book The Nature Fix, how her early experiences in nature influenced her storytelling, her healing outdoor journey from heartbreak, and more.

December 17, 2022

PaRx Endorsed by National Medical Association at COP15

Read about the Canadian Medical Association's ground-breaking endorsement of PaRx in Montreal.

November 30, 2022

Director of PaRx Receives 2022 Nature Inspiration Award

Help us celebrate PaRx Director Dr. Melissa Lem for receiving a 2022 Nature Inspiration Award from the Canadian Museum of Nature.

September 28, 2022

PaRx People: A Conversation with Stephen Cornish

Hear insights from a global leader in humanitarianism and the environment about the connections between health and the natural world, and his on-the-ground experience with how nature has provided hope and healing during disasters and war in Ukraine and beyond.

June 30, 2022

PaRx People: A Conversation with Raffi

Read about how nature has inspired this renowned troubadour's songwriting and climate advocacy, and his tips for how to inspire families and children to head outdoors.

June 28, 2022

PaRx launches in Newfoundland and Labrador

Read all about our latest launch that completes our roll-out to all ten provinces.

May 31, 2022

PaRx People: A Conversation with Dr. Kate Mulligan

Discover insights from a social prescribing early adopter and researcher about effective nature prescribing, the new Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing, and tips for self-care and connecting to nature in a busy world.

May 16, 2022

Prescri-Nature launches in Quebec

Welcome to the newest member of the PaRx family.

April 22, 2022

PaRx launches in the Maritimes

Learn about our launch in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island this Earth Day.

March 31, 2022

PaRx People: A Conversation with Dr. Nicole Redvers

Hear from a Dene naturopathic doctor, author and Indigenous health scholar about her unique career path, the implications of nature prescribing outside Western medicine, and meaningful ways health professionals can reduce barriers for Indigenous patients to connect to the land.

March 28, 2022

PaRx launches in Alberta

Read all about our launch that extends PaRx across the Prairies.

February 25, 2022

PaRx People: A Conversation with Jacqueline Scott

Read about her journey from being a bookish child to nature lover, scholar and one of Canada's best-known advocates for connecting Black people to nature, the untold history of Black outdoor trailblazers in Canada, and how to improve greenspace equity.

January 31, 2022

Annonce d'une nouvelle collaboration entre PaRx et Parcs Canada

Découvrez comment nous travaillons ensemble pour connecter les gens à la nature pour une meilleure santé dans certains des endroits les plus précieux du pays.

January 31, 2022

Announcing a New Collaboration between PaRx and Parks Canada

Learn how we're working together to connect people to nature for improved health in some of the country’s most treasured places.

January 28, 2022

PaRx People: A Conversation with Gil Peñalosa

Hear from this world-renowned urban planner about how he sparked an outdoor movement that spread globally, and why cities and parks must be designed to support the health of people of all ages.

December 21, 2021

PaRx People: A Conversation with Dr. Sarika Cullis-Suzuki

Read about how nature has influenced this marine biologist, documentary host and environmentalist's career and health, and her tips for inspiring kids to love and protect the planet.

December 14, 2021

Hit the Trails for a First Day Hike

Start off the New Year on the right foot with a BC Parks Foundation tradition.

November 29, 2021

PaRx People: A Conversation with Dr. Robert Zarr

Learn how the founder of Park Rx America was inspired to create one of the world’s first nature prescription programs, and tips on how healthcare professionals can effectively connect patients and themselves to nature.

October 28, 2021

PaRx People: Meet Dr. Thomas Astell-Burt and Dr. Xiaoqi Feng

Hear how these dynamic Down-Under scientists are changing the landscape of nature and health research in Australia and beyond.

October 12, 2021

PaRx Launches in Manitoba

Learn all about our launch in the Keystone Province.

September 29, 2021

PaRx People: A Conversation with Roy Henry Vickers

Read about how this world-renowned artist has helped heal himself and others by connecting to the land through art, and how traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast can teach health professionals how to be better healers.

August 31, 2021

PaRx People: Meet Michelle Reugebrink

Learn from a firefighter and certified forest therapy guide about how she’s using nature to increase resilience in first responders.

July 28, 2021

Learners Leading: How Western University Students Helped Launch a Local PaRx Program in Ontario

Hear how they brought PaRx to the Penetanguishene area.

July 5, 2021

PaRx Launches in Saskatchewan

Read all about our first launch in the Prairies.

June 25, 2021

PaRx People: A Conversation with Naomi Klein

Learn about the integral role of nature in this renowned journalist's life from childhood to parenthood and her career, her latest book How to Change Everything and more.

May 18, 2021

PaRx People: Meet Dr. Rachel Buxton

Read about the ground-breaking work a conservation biologist is doing to raise awareness of the importance of nature sounds for human health.

April 28, 2021

Greening our Hospital Grounds for Health

Hear from a hospital grounds team leader about how he's transforming them into a healing refuge for patients, staff and the wider community.

March 23, 2021

PaRx People: Meet Dr. Susan Abookire

Learn about the innovative ways a Harvard internal medicine physician, health-care executive, aviation engineer and forest therapy guide is connecting her colleagues and patients to nature.

February 22, 2021

PaRx Launches in Ontario

Learn more about our Ontario launch.

February 10, 2021

Thriving After Cancer With a Walk in the Woods

Read how one researcher is helping cancer patients heal with nature.

January 12, 2021

Staying Healthy and Safe Outdoors: Remember the 3 Ts

Keep these three tips in mind for a safe winter season outside.

December 18, 2020

Hit the Trails for a First Day Hike

Start off the New Year on the right foot with a BC Parks Foundation tradition.

November 30, 2020

The BC Parks Foundation Launches PaRx: Canada's first national nature prescription program

Learn all about our launch.

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