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

by NBSF Team | Oct 11, 2022 | In the News, Partnerships

Celina Starnes of the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance stands under an old-growth Western redcedar near Kanaka Bar Indian Band, home to the T’eqt’aqtn’mux, in British Columbia this past Sept. 21. PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAFAL GERSZAK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Below is a new Globe and...

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

by NBSF Team | Oct 11, 2022 | Partnerships, Press Release

Kanaka Bar leaders and conservationists, from left to right: Kanaka Bar CEO Greg Grayson, Kanaka Bar Lands Manager Sean O’Rourke, Kanaka Bar Chief Jordan Spinks, Endangered Ecosystems Alliance Outreach Director Celina Starnes, Nature-Based Solutions Foundation...

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

by NBSF Team | Jul 24, 2022 | In the News, Partnerships

Read a new article by Jessica Peters (originally published in the Black Press on July 19, 2022) 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...

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

by NBSF Team | Jul 11, 2022 | In the News, Partnerships

*** The Nature-Based Solutions Foundation (NBSF) has granted $30,000 to the Kanaka Bar Band to undertake land use planning as it relates to the development of this Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) proposal. The NBSF’s funding comes as part of the...