BC Conservation Fund

Initiatives
Initiatives
- Parks Bank
  Supporting the purchase of private lands important to communities, wildlife, and climate mitigation.
- Healthy by Nature
  Boosting Canadians’ health and learning in conjunction with doctors, health care professionals, and educators across Canada.
- Discover Parks
  Adding outdoor recreational experiences and facilities so that everyone can enjoy parks safely and responsibly.
- BC Conservation Fund
  Supporting the long-term conservation of priority biodiverse landscapes across BC by working together with the Province, First Nations, and many other partners.
- Community Science
  Empowering British Columbians and visitors with accessible tools to contribute to a living picture of the animals, plants and other elements that sustain life.
- Spark Grants
  Supporting volunteers, youth, entrepreneurs and new Canadians to maintain, improve and experience parks.
- 30x30
  Working with First Nations, local communities, and people like you to protect what matters most.
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Overview

Keeping BC’s original lands, waters, and wildlife beautiful—for all, forever.

Launched in 2024, the BC Conservation Fund supports inspired people and impactful projects that accelerate conservation for land and freshwater areas across BC, while creating lasting benefits for communities and economies. Working together with the Province of BC, First Nations, and partners across every sector, the Fund helps conserve priority areas that are ecologically and bioculturally diverse through sustained, reliable, long-term financing.

Area-based conservation initiatives follow a pathway from securing First Nation community mandates for conservation, to securing government to government agreements that co-designate new conservation areas under both First Nation and Crown law, to ensuring the long-term stewardship of newly conserved areas.

The Fund is designed to help address the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change and advance reconciliation with First Nations across BC. Your support helps fund projects that conserve and restore wetlands, old-growth forests, wildlife habitats, watersheds, rare ecosystems, and more—while advancing the knowledge, tools, and community capacity needed to protect BC’s biodiversity for generations to come.

Goals & Objectives

The vision of the BC Conservation Fund is that BC’s ecosystems are home to a diversity of healthy and productive species, communities, and businesses for the long run. One of the most direct and effective ways to achieve this is through investing in the implementation of area-based conservation initiatives across BC, including supporting community engagement and visioning phase, securing co-designations, and ensuring the long-term stewardship and management of new conservation areas for the benefit of all British Columbians.

Preserve & restore ecological integrity

The Fund identifies and prioritizes ecologically important and biodiverse areas throughout BC. It works to identify and reduce threats and pressures to biodiversity, and to conserve and steward priority areas, with special consideration for primary forests including old growth.

Support First Nation leadership in conservation

The Fund recognizes and promotes First Nations leadership and governance or co-governance in conservation and stewardship. Area-based projects are either led or supported by First Nations communities, and secure protection designation under First Nation law alongside provincial law as a key outcome of government-to-government planning and negotiations.

Promote working together

The Fund promotes constructive dialogue and collaboration, builds relationships and trust through joint projects and solutions, and coordinates and aligns investments and activities. It also encourages opportunities for traditional ecological knowledge to be shared and used, develops efficient, informed processes and systems for working together, and showcases thought leadership while celebrating successes.

Catalyze sources of long-term stable conservation financing

The Fund leverages matching contributions, seeds and grows long term stable financing and diversifies financing sources. It engages all British Columbians and visitors in supporting conservation and utilizes a project for permanence model to provide stable long-term financing, for the stewardship of newly conserved areas.

Grow public support and participation

The Fund fosters public awareness and connections, supporting and advancing learning about ecological integrity and conservation, inspiring action and participation, and promoting a collective culture of conservation in all segments of BC society.

Advance a sustainable economy

The Fund promotes stable jobs and economies through synergies between conservation, communities, and businesses. It advances capacity related to conservation through education and experience, advances innovative technologies and systems for conservation, and fosters an entrepreneurial mindset related to conservation challenges and opportunities.

Initiative Highlights

Conservation initiatives are being supported by the BC Conservation Fund.

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"Each project reflects a steadfast commitment to lasting care."

Funding for our first intake of projects under Stream 1 is now well underway, marking a new phase of conservation action in BC. With the guidance of our Oversight Committee, the Fund is regularly reviewing Expressions of Interest and full applications and making funding decisions that are already helping to protect and restore critical areas.