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March 3, 2017 - A unique unspoiled waterfront forest on the east coast of Thetis Island is now permanently protected. The Islands Trust Fund, in partnership with the Cowichan Community Land Trust and the Thetis Island Nature Conservancy, has created a nature reserve to protect 21 hectares (52 acres) of Moore Hill.
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May 24, 2016 - A fundraising campaign to acquire Fairyslipper Forest on Thetis Island has received a much needed boost. An anonymous donor recently pledged to match donations up to $40,000. Once matched, this gift will help meet the impending campaign goal of 50 percent needed by the end of June 2016.
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February 1, 2016 - The owners of Clam Bay Farms have signed a conservation covenant with the Islands Trust Fund protecting more than eight hectares of endangered forest ecosystems adjacent to Clam Bay Road on North Pender Island. The Clam Bay Conservation Covenant permanently protects mature mixed stands of Douglas-fir, Western redcedar, grand fir and bigleaf maple, including two exceptional veteran Douglas-fir trees estimated to be 500 and 800 years old.
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January 8, 2016 - Ann and Michael Philpot have permanently protected the natural ecosystems of their Wallace Point property through a conservation covenant with the Islands Trust Fund.
The Wallace Point covenant is North Pender Island’s eighth Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program (NAPTEP) covenant. With the addition of the Philpot’s 1.63 hectare covenant on Wallace Point, there are now 7.2 hectares of land protected by NAPTEP covenants on North Pender Island.
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November 26, 2015 - At this time of year, many people want to give gifts to friends, family and colleague, but struggle to find gifts with meaning. Symbolic gifts can be a great fit, especially when you can support a local cause close to the heart of the recipient. This year you can give a gift of Coastal Douglas-fir forest!
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June 8, 2015 - The Islands Trust Fund and partners Thetis Island Nature Conservancy (ThINC) and Cowichan Community Land Trust have launched an online video to kick-start year two of the campaign to create the first publicly-accessible nature reserve on Thetis Island. |
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April 28, 2015 - The mature coastal Douglas-fir forest on the John Osland Nature Reserve on Lasqueti Island is now officially protected by the Islands Trust Fund and its partners, the Lasqueti Island Nature Conservancy (LINC) and the Nanaimo & Area Land Trust (NALT). |
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February 17, 2015 - Complete mapping of eelgrass beds in the waters surrounding Canada’s islands in the Salish Sea is now available online.
The new maps are intended to support governments in preventing habitat loss as they make science-based decisions about land use and conservation in shoreline areas.
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November 5, 2014 - The McFadden Creek Nature Sanctuary on Salt Spring Island has joined the Islands Trust Fund’s network of over 90 protected places in Canada’s islands in the Salish Sea. |
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October 8, 2014 - Larry Appleby is Salt Spring Island’s 10th landowner to permanently protect private land with a Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program (NAPTEP) covenant. |
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September 15, 2014 - The namesake tree of the Elder Cedar (S’ul-hween X’pey) Nature Reserve, a frequently visited giant Western redcedar on Gabriola Island, is showing signs of distress. Three local groups have had to make the tough decision to protect the tree’s root zone with a fence. |
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September 9, 2014 - A joint fundraising campaign is underway to create the first community nature reserve on Thetis Island. The campaign, involving the Thetis Island Nature Conservancy, the Cowichan Land Trust and the Islands Trust Fund, aims to raise $560K to acquire the property known as Lower Burchell Hill. |
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| June 2, 2014 - A new report finds that forests in the Islands Trust area store and sequester more carbon than Coastal Douglas-fir zone forests outside the Trust area. |
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| May 27, 2014 - Marine biologists and volunteers travelled the coastlines of Thetis, Hornby and Denman Islands over the last year to find 196 beaches capable of supporting forage fish spawning. |
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| February 3, 2014 - New maps of eelgrass habitat in the Islands Trust area will provide baseline information that marine scientists, conservation organizations and local governments can use to monitor the health of marine habitat of the Salish Sea. |
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| January 29, 2014 - The Islands Trust offers island property owners a way to keep money in their pockets in exchange for preserving natural habitat and the benefits green space provides communities. |
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| November 27, 2013 - The Islands Trust Fund has teamed with two local land trusts to reinforce the protected status of three nature reserves on Gambier Island. The agreements ensure decisions about future management will include local knowledge. |
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| October 1, 2013 - A donation from the Islands Trust Fund tips a campaign to save an iconic island waterfront into the homestretch. The Pender Islands Conservancy Association is less than $100,000 away from their fundraising goal to protection Brooks Point forever. |
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| September 10, 2013 - The Islands Trust Fund has signed an agreement with the Lasqueti Island Nature Conservancy and the Nanaimo and Area Land Trust to share responsibility for protecting Mt. Trematon on Lasqueti Island. |
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| August 26, 2013 - Mud boggers and ATV drivers are jeopardizing the future of a Bowen Island nature reserve that only three years ago was one of the least disturbed and ecologically rare fens in southern BC. |
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| May 21, 2013 - The Islands Trust Fund, Galiano Conservancy Association and the Nature Conservancy of Canada have secured 40 hectares of forestland on Galiano, completing the 500-hectare Mid-Galiano Conservation Network. |
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| May 14, 2013 - The Islands Trust Fund will match the next $5,000 it receives in donations to protect Brooks Point, a headland jutting out into Boundary Pass. Donations received by December 31, 2013 to the Islands Trust Fund's Opportunity Fund will be doubled and directed to the campaign to save this stunning waterfront property. |
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| December 18, 2012 - In time for the holiday season, Andy Nowak and Mary Reher have given unique species a significant gift - a permanently protected home. The North Pender couple donated a conservation covenant through the Islands Trust Fund's NAPTEP program, protecting the forest on their land forever. |
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| November 20, 2012 - Hornby resident Tom Knott has become the first on his island to use a tax-saving program to protect his land, with the assistance of the Islands Trust Fund and Conservancy Hornby Island. His gift - the Myra Powers Conservation Covenant - permanently protects a maturing forest on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Geoffrey. |
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| November 14, 2012 - Dr. Kal Holsti and Marilyn Wan's generous donation of land to the Islands Trust Fund has become Denman Island's newest nature reserve. "Our first priority was to protect the habitat on our land and create a place that others can enjoy. And if we can serve as a model to others, so much the better for all Denman Islanders." |
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| February 9, 2012 - With mounting development pressures, the need for permanent land protection on Thetis is bigger than ever. Private landowners can protect ems on their land without giving up their rights to live on, enjoy and sell the land. Conservation covenants offer an innovative tool that protects land in perpetuity. |
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| January 18, 2012 - From the time John Osland moved to Lasqueti Island in 1948, he lived lightly on the land, leaving only his bicycle tracks along his grassy driveway. At the age of 91, John passed away, leaving his 64-hectare proeprty to the Islands Trust Fund to be protected forever as a nature reserve. |
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| December 6, 2011 - Bob and Fran's love affair with their land started more than twenty years ago, when they began creating a sanctuary for native species by removing invasives from the lot. Today, the Roses are delighted by the camas, fairy-slippers, buttercups and blue-eyed Mary that carpet the meadow where the broom once stood. |
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| February 18, 2011 - Join us March 18th, 2011 for a NAPTEP Open House on Lasqueti Island. Learn about this conservation program, new to Lasqueti. NAPTEP rewards conservation-minded landowners with an annual 65% property tax reduction on portions of their land protected by a conservation covenant. |
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| February 17, 2011 - The Kikuchi family, of North Pender Island, have permanently protected their property with a conservation covenant. The protected area, dedicated to the family's ancestors and future generations, will remain naturally beautiful forever. |
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