Nature-Based Solutions Foundation Selected as Finalist for 2024 Land Awards!

The Nature-Based Solutions Foundation (NBSF) is working to raise critical stewardship funding by the New Year to support a plan to save rare old-growth forests and endangered ecosystems by the Kanaka Bar Indian Band south of Lytton

The Nature-Based Solutions Foundation has partnered with TELUS to help protect old-growth forests!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.