Our purpose is to invest in inspired people and impactful projects that accelerate conservation of land and freshwater areas while creating lasting benefits for communities and economies.
Overview
Biodiversity loss and climate change are immediate and significant threats in British Columbia. BC Conservation Fund works with Indigenous peoples, communities and partners across sectors to conserve and restore ecological-integrity in our richest natural areas.
By supporting First Nations leadership and governance, leveraging long-term financing, and focusing on meaningful impact, we help ensure that BC’s extraordinary wildlife and wild places endure for generations to come.
We are committed to restoring ecological integrity, empowering First Nations leadership, building strategic partnerships, securing stable long-term conservation financing, engaging the public, and advancing a sustainable nature-based economy across British Columbia.
a. Identify and prioritize ecologically important and biodiverse areas with representation throughout BC.
b. Identify and reduce threats and pressures to biodiversity.
c. Conserve and steward priority areas with special consideration for primary forests including old growth.
a. Support community visioning, readiness, and internal mandates for conserving areas.
b. Connect First Nations to resources and external partnerships.
c. Foster shared stewardship between First Nations and their communities, members and organizations.
a. Foster understanding through objective information, knowledge sharing, and resources.
b. Promote constructive dialogue and collaboration among people who can advance conservation.
c. Build relationships and trust through work together on projects and solutions.
d. Coordinate and align investments and activities to achieve the Fund mission.
e. Encourage opportunities for traditional and local ecological knowledge to be shared and used.
f. Develop and promote efficient, well-informed processes and systems for working together and achieving results, including government-to-government agreements.
g. Showcase thought leadership and celebrate and promote successes.
a. Leverage the Fund with matching contributions.
b. Use the Fund to seed and grow long-term stable financing.
c. Diversify financing sources for conservation.
d. Engage all British Columbians and visitors in supporting conservation.
e. Utilize a Project Finance for Permanence model to incentivize conservation and provide sustained long-term financing for stewardship of newly conserved areas.
a. Foster public awareness and connections.
b. Support and advance learning about ecological integrity and conservation.
c. Inspire action and participation.
d. Promote a collective culture of conservation in all segments of BC society.
a. Foster and promote stable jobs and economies through synergies between conservation, communities, and businesses.
b. Advance capacity related to conservation through education and experience.
c. Advance innovative technologies and systems for conservation.
d. Foster an entrepreneurial mindset related to conservation challenges and opportunities.
We value innovation, collaboration, and respect for the natural world, taking a focused, entrepreneurial approach to create lasting conservation impact across British Columbia.
• Thinking about future generations and being respectful of the web of life.
• Experimenting, learning, and building knowledge and innovation.
• Integrating diverse knowledge and ways of knowing.
• Practice reciprocity in relationships.
• Feeling inspired and joyful about making a big impact and seeing results.
• Making pragmatic and economically responsible decisions.
• Promote innovation and entrepreneurship.
Allocate energy and resources to things that will have a big impact on our mission.
• Leverage our resources.
• Always have a focus and be willing to say ‘no.’
• Work with inspired partners aligned with our vision and mission.
• Practice disciplined governance and management.
• Share and celebrate success.
• Provide superior performance and relentless problem-solving.
