Bundled in our jackets, toques, and gloves, I’m joined by TLC staff and local Salt Spring Island supporters in the cool shade of one of the island’s rare coastal temperate rainforests. Enormous bigleaf maples (Acer macrophyllum) and western redcedars (Thuja plicata) – some believed to be 250 years old – surround and tower over us, [...]
TLC has a new conservation covenant application form for perspective landowners that gathers important information about the land you know and love, including a vision statement that can be used to help guide future decisions to ensure your legacy is upheld. A covenant agreement is written in “legalese” which can often leave [...]
Finalists announced for 2022 Nature Inspiration Awards Ottawa, September 15, 2022 — The Canadian Museum of Nature is pleased to announce the finalists and the Lifetime Achievement recipient for its 2022 Nature Inspiration Awards. These national honours, presented annually since 2014, recognize individuals, groups and organizations whose leadership and innovation connect Canadians with the natural [...]
TLC's 2021/22 Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements are now available online and in hard copy. Learn more about our conservation achievements from the 2021/22 fiscal year including the protection of 16.6 acres of mature dryland forest on the Sunshine Coast known as Gospel Rock, and 16.49 acres of critical, provincially listed habitat [...]
NEWS RELEASE TLC RECEIVES BEQUEST VALUED AT OVER $8.8 MILLION Donation includes 8 acres of urban greenspace in the Blenkinsop Valley FOR RELEASE: September 10, 2022 Victoria, BC – The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) is honoured to announce the receipt of a bequest of three adjacent properties in the Blenkinsop Valley, funds to maintain [...]
New community park land acquired for Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Sep 09, 2022 Victoria, BC — The Capital Regional District (CRD) Board has approved the purchase of 23.5 hectares of land in Otter Point as a new Juan de Fuca Electoral Area community park. The property has been identified as a prime candidate for purchase as [...]
Join us on Saturday, September 17 at 9:30 a.m. for a work party at our conservation area next to Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary! We will be disposing legacy garbage. Tools and safety gear will be provided - you bring the enthusiasm and muscle! After the clean up, we will give a tour of Mary [...]
Proceeds from the sale of the art will be divided evenly between the artist and TLC September 5 to October 10 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. View paintings and sketches inspired by the beautiful Abkhazi Garden, created by local artists who have been part of the plein air Artists in [...]
Goodbye TLC! My time as intern has finished, and I just wanted to share my appreciation for the great team who work at TLC and have the passion for conservation. I’ve had an awesome experience as a summer intern: learning covenant monitoring, learning the perspective of a biologist in relation to my geography point [...]
As my co-worker and I were hiking along an old logging road while monitoring a covenanted forest behind the Malahat, we spotted a Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) sitting on an old log. Before I could get a picture, it scampered away, but it was amazing to see this native squirrel because it is usually [...]