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Overview

Protecting the places that make BC, BC

From ancient forests and salmon-bearing rivers, to wild shorelines and endangered grasslands, BC’s lands and waters are part of our identity.

Your support, along with partner and community support, helps permanently protect the most beautiful and ecologically important places in the province.

Whether it’s a future park, a wildlife corridor, or a community sanctuary, every acre you help protect moves us closer to a healthier, more secure future—for people, wildlife, and the planet.

Goals & Objectives

Protecting Beautiful Places focuses on four key goals that guide our efforts to protect land, support communities, and secure a healthier future for nature and for all of us.

Permanently protect ecologically and culturally significant private lands

Safeguard BC’s most beautiful and biodiverse places—forests, rivers, grasslands, and shorelines—by purchasing private land and securing it for future generations through permanent protection.

Expand and connect BC’s parks and Indigenous protected areas

Help grow the greatest system of parks and protected areas in the world by connecting conservation areas, creating wildlife corridors, and restoring degraded lands across the province.

Empower people and communities to take action on climate and biodiversity

Make conservation something everyone can be part of. Through crowdfunding, partnerships, and stewardship opportunities, British Columbians are invited to Protect Beautiful Places right now, right here at home.

Support long-term health, learning, and resilience

Protected areas improve human health and well-being. Protecting Beautiful Places contributes to climate resilience, species survival, cultural vitality, and healthy communities across BC.

Initiative Highlights

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Nearly 290,000 acres safeguarded across BC.

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Your gift will go toward permanently protecting BC’s most beautiful and biodiverse lands. That means you're doing a beautiful thing for nature, people, and climate resilience across this great province. Your donation will be matched by a generous donor, doubling your impact to create the greatest system of parks and Indigenous protected areas in the world.

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Enjoy Forever

“I’ve been romanced by adventure and wild spaces my whole life. My strongest memories and relationships take place in nature.”

Meet Sharman, a lifelong outdoor enthusiast and educator based in Kamloops. As Co-Chair of the Adventure Studies Department at Thompson Rivers University, he’s spent more than two decades helping students discover BC’s wild places—starting with the rivers he once guided himself. For Sharman, the grasslands around Kamloops are sacred. “The way the wind moves through the tall grasses—it brings the whole landscape to life,” he says. “That ability to step outside your door and escape into nature—that’s worth protecting.” When BC Parks Foundation launched a campaign to protect 517 acres near Juniper Ridge, he saw a chance to give back.

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Acres of land protected forever.

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Chelsea Rooney
Communications

(236) 477-2554 x 130
chelsea.rooney@bcparksfoundation.ca


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