Saturna Island Trust Area Includes:

Saturna Island Local Trust Area includes more than 10 associated islands including:

  • Anniversary Island
  • Cabbage Island
  • Lizard Island
list of all Islands

Meetings and Events Around: Saturna

Learn about upcoming Saturna Island Local Trust Area meetings and events and plan to attend.

Find out more about how you can share your views with us.

Jul 20
2023

Saturna LTC Regular Meeting

Region:
Time: 11:30 am
View Details
Oct 19
2023

Saturna LTC Regular Meeting

Region:
Time: 11:30 am
View Details
Jun 14
2023

Executive Committee

Time: 9:00 am
View Details

Meet Your Local Trust Committee

Mairead Boland

Mairead Boland

Saturna Island Trustee

Lee Middleton

Lee Middleton

Saturna Island Trustee

 

 

David Maude

David Maude

Mayne Island Trustee, Executive Committee Vice-Chair

 

 

Island Profile

The Saturna Island Local Trust Area is 45% protected. It has critical habitat for the small herb, White Meconella; flowering plant, Lindley’s False Silverpuffs; and the Great Blue Heron bird. Off the east coast of Saturna is one of three temporary sanctuaries for southern resident killer whales.

Mature Forest Growth

24.7

%

on island

Parks and Woodland

45

%

protected

Population

Saturna

465

Trust Area

Land Converted to Human Use

10

%

on island

News Saturna LTA

Find out what's happening in and around your local trust area

Read the latest edition of the Heron

Islands Trust Conservancy’s most recent edition of the Heron is out now! Cover of the Heron newsletter – Spring 2023.…

LEARN MORE

Islands Trust Conservancy’s Species At Risk Program gets federal funding boost

Lək̓ ʷəŋən, METULIYE/Victoria, B.C. –  Islands Trust Conservancy has received a three-year funding boost of $660,000 from Environment and Climate…

LEARN MORE
In the foreground there is a yellow painted nail next to a small yellow montane violet plant with three flowers. In the background you can see a woman putting down bright pink flags to mark other threatened plants.

Link Island donated to Islands Trust Conservancy – highest valued land donation in Conservancy’s history

For immediate release Lək̓ ʷəŋən, METULIYE/Victoria, B.C. – Late conservationist Betty Swift has donated Link Island, a 21.45 hectare (52.5…

LEARN MORE
Cliffs spotted with over-hanging arbutus trees overlooking the Salish Sea on a rainy spring day. In the foreground little yellow wildflowers and lichens cover the cliff face.

Islands Trust Conservancy provides $5,400 Opportunity Fund grant to support a new nature stewardship program on Thetis Island

Lək̓ ʷəŋən, METULIYE/Victoria, B.C. – The Islands Trust Conservancy has granted $5,400 to Thetis Island Nature Conservancy for a new…

LEARN MORE
Volunteers gather in the forest during a training session for THiNC's new Nature Stewards Program.

Saturna Island LTC 2023 Meeting Schedule

This is the Saturna Island Local Trust Committee 2023 Meeting Schedule.

LEARN MORE
Morning Fog Forest bathed in orange sunlight

Introducing Moss Mountain covenant – one of Salt Spring Island’s newest protected areas

Lək̓ ʷəŋən, METULIYE/Victoria, B.C.  –  Islands Trust Conservancy celebrates the protection of nearly 50 hectares of land (112 acres) on…

LEARN MORE
Moss Mountain covering with old leaves and naked trees

Islands Trust Conservancy gives $6,000 funding boost to support nature stewardship on Gabriola Island

Lək̓ ʷəŋən, METULIYE/Victoria, B.C.  – Gabriola Land and Trails Trust (GaLTT) has received a $6,000 Opportunity Fund grant from Islands…

LEARN MORE
Nature Steward participant sign to encourage wildlife friendly gardens

Islands Trust Conservancy celebrates the protection of Woodpecker Forest on SDȺY¸ES/North Pender Island this Earth Day.

Lək̓ ʷəŋən, METULIYE/Victoria, B.C.  –   Islands Trust Conservancy (ITC) celebrates the addition of Woodpecker Forest, a new protected area that…

LEARN MORE
Lisa Baile and Peter Pare in Woodpecker Forest