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Canada-wide Art Auction for Old Growth Raises $35,000 for NBSF!

The Nature-Based Solutions Foundation is ecstatic to announce that the second ever Art Auction for Old Growth, an annual Canada-wide event organized by painter Kyle Scheurmann, has raised over $35,000 for our projects to protect endangered old-growth forests in BC! This year’s event was a wonderful accomplishment thanks to the unified and unrelenting determination of passionate Canadian artists working to make a difference for old-growth forests.

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Q&A with Business Leader & Tech Entrepreneur Dennis Pilarinos

Technology Executive and Entrepreneur Dennis Pilarinos is no stranger to investing in novel ideas. Dennis has been working at the forefront of technological innovation for over 20 years holding senior roles at companies like Microsoft, Apple and selling his last company to Apple.

Bringing his zest for novel solutions alongside his passion for conservation, Dennis sat down with us to discuss his hope of using his business insights and gains to support NBSF with the goal of helping advance protection for endangered old-growth forests in BC.

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Q&A with Johnny Rodgers, Founding Slack Employee

Johnny Rodgers, founding employee of Slack, grew up in Ontario and moved to BC in 2005 where his passion for environmental advocacy ignited with his proximity to the endangered old-growth temperate forests of the province’s coastal regions. Both he and his wife, Jessica, became deeply impacted by their encounters with old growth and motivated to help protect them upon their growing awareness of the imminent industrial activities threatening what little remained of these ecosystems. Now parents to two little boys, they have committed themselves to helping preserve these imperiled forests for future generations.

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National Observer: Conservation group buys stand of majestic old-growth as gift for First Nation

Read an article in the National Observer about the Nature-Based Solutions Foundation's work with the Kanaka Bar Indian Band to help protect the old-growth forests and native ecosystems in Kanaka Bar territory. The Foundation has purchased an exceptionally diverse old-growth forest on private lands to gift to the band with a conservation covenant and is also helping to fund their 350 square kilometre Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) proposal that would protect 125 square kilometres of old-growth forests in their territory.

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Globe & Mail: B.C. Indigenous conservation plan gets private backing

Read a new Globe and Mail article about the Nature-Based Solutions Foundation's purchase of potentially the most diverse old-growth forest on private land in BC—with both dry-adapted old-growth Ponderosa pine and wet-adapted western redcedar growing side-by-side—to be given back to the Kanaka Bar Indian Band (located south of Lytton) with a conservation covenant. It also features the Kanaka Bar Band's Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) proposal, which is also receiving support from the Foundation. The IPCA would protect about 350 square kilometres of land in their territory, including 125 square kilometres of old-growth forest.

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Media Release: Conservation group buys one of BC’s most diverse old-growth forests – to be gifted with a conservation covenant to the Kanaka Bar Indian Band

The Nature-Based Solutions Foundation has completed a purchase of what could be the most diverse old-growth forest in BC, located in the Fraser Canyon about 15 km south of Lytton in the unceded territory of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band. The private property was purchased in August by the new conservation organization, which intends to gift the land with a conservation covenant to the Kanaka Bar Band, who are working on major conservation projects throughout their territory.

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Black Press: Kanaka Bar Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) Supported by the Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Read a new article about the 35,000 hectare Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA), which will protect 12,500 hectares of some of the rarest and least represented old-growth forests in BC, planned by the Kanaka Bar Band (a Nlaka'pamux First Nation) in the Fraser Canyon near Lytton. The Nature-Based Solutions Foundation (NBSF) has been supporting this initiative as part of our Old-Growth Solutions Initiative to help protect old-growth forests across BC.

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Kanaka Bar Indian Band To Protect Unique Old-Growth Forests And Endangered Ecosystems In Proposed T'eqt'aqtn Indigenous Protected And Conserved Area

Over 12,500 hectares of some of BC’s most endangered and diverse old-growth forests will be protected in in the territory of the Kanaka Bar Band, a Nlaka'pamux First Nation in the Fraser Canyon near Lytton, when a major new Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) is finalized. The Kanaka Bar Band announced their vision today to protect a total of about 35,000 hectares of their unceded lands in British Columbia in this IPCA.

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