Opportunity Fund
You can help us leap into action when we need it the most!
Sometimes opportunities to save the most endangered landscapes come up out of the blue. When they do, we turn to the Opportunity Fund; the fund that supports the regions conservation projects.
Opportunities to protect old-growth forests, diverse wetlands, species-at-risk habitat and wildlife corridors arise at unpredictable times. We need your support in replenishing the Opportunity Fund so we are ready to jump in when opportunities arise.
Your donation to the Opportunity Fund will help local island conservancies seize new opportunities to protect the most endangered species and ecosystems on the islands in the Salish Sea.
Donations to the Opportunity Fund have helped protect Koontz NAPTEP Covenant on Gabriola Island and Reginald Hill on Salt Spring Island.
Property Management Fund
The Property Management Fund supports the Island Trust Conservancy’s commitment to the Nature Reserves that are entrusted in our care.
Generous donations from kind and caring people like yourself go to support the following key elements of preservation:
- Stewardship: Enhancement and restoration of the natural features, habitats, and ecosystems including species-at-risk surveying and monitoring, and invasive species management;
- Management: Analysis, prioritization, and research to best manage land and species, incorporating guidance from ecological experts. Practices of best management are guided by monitoring, archaeological, and biological reports, as well as knowledge from Indigenous Cultural Knowledge Holders;
- Recreation: Maintenance and establishment of recreational features within ITC nature reserves as determined through management planning;
- Signs: Installation, updating, and maintaining of signs;
- Managing Risk: Ensuring the safety of the community and recreationists;
- Legal: Legal services, arbitration, and mediation processes required to properly manage properties and enforce issues as they arise.
Covenant Management and Defence Fund
Conservation and land stewardship in perpetuity incurs costs. As the number of conservation covenants placed under the care of Islands Trust Conservancy has increased, so has the time, effort, and resources required for managing these properties.
This fund is particular to protecting the 81 conservation covenants in the care of the Islands Trust Conservancy. The purpose of this designated fund is to ensure that Islands Trust Conservancy can continue to meet the future demands of land stewardship success.
By setting funds aside now, we can fund management restoration projects and enforce issues as they arise.
Your donation will help to ensure these stewardship lands are well cared for.
Lasqueti Island Acquisition Fund
Lasqueti Island Local Trust Area is home to some of the rarest ecosystems in the world that are under threat from development, climate change, and habitat degradation. Only 12% is protected.
With help from people like you, a high ridge top next to Squitty Bay Provincial Park, the Salish View Nature Reserve, was protected in July 2019.
Your donations toward Lasqueti Island Acquisition Fund will help future land acquisition in this Local Trust Area.
Thetis Island Acquisition Fund
Thetis Island Local Trust Area is home to some of the rarest ecosystems in the world that are under threat from development, climate change and habitat degradation. Only 4% is protected.
With help from people like you, Fairyslipper Forest Nature Reserve was protected in 2018. The Fairyslipper Forest Nature Reserve is the first publicly accessible protected area on Thetis Island.
Your donations toward Thetis Island Acquisition Fund will help future land acquisition in this Local Trust Area.
Gambier Island Acquisition Fund
Gambier Island Local Trust Area is home to some of the rarest ecosystems in the world that are under threat from development, climate change and habitat degradation. Only 16% is protected.
Mount Artaban has long been a popular hiking destination. The property was held as Provincial Crown Land for many years and was transferred in 2008 to the Islands Trust Conservancy through the Sponsored Crown Grant Program.
To satisfy the province’s conditions for the transfer, the Islands Trust Conservancy partnered with the Gambier Island Conservancy to fundraise more than $40,000 to cover the costs of the property survey and a management plan. Contributions from more than 80 individuals, businesses, and community groups helped protect the mountain.
Your donations toward Gambier Island Acquisition Fund will help future land acquisition in this Local Trust Area.