Read excerpts from an article by Eric Plummer published on Ha-Shilth-Sa about the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation’s recent milestone in their efforts to protect 650-square kilometre through their Salmon Parks Initiative, which the Nature-Based Solutions Foundation is proud to be supporting.

Read excerpts from an opinion piece in the Campbell River Mirror about a plan to protect over 650-square kilometres of forest, rivers, old growth, and shoreline on western Vancouver Island, led by the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation and supported by the Nature-Based Solutions Foundation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A new conservation foundation is working to provide Indigenous and other land-based communities with funds to protect endangered ecosystems and build economic alternatives to the logging of at-risk old-growth forests.