BC Spaces is a solutions-oriented non-profit society employing a range of innovative approaches to achieve our conservation goals, including the development of sustainable economic transition strategies as part of our Jobs and Environment Program, which is of particular relevance to BC's resource-based rural communities.

Over the past 3 decades, BC Spaces staff have contributed significantly to the protection of over 7 million acres in park lands and 7 million acres in Special Management Zones.

Some of the most well-known areas include:

Nitinat Triangle of Pacific Rim National Park; the first citizens' wilderness and rainforest campaign in Canada

Spatsizi Wilderness Park; a stellar wildlife area, long known as British Columbia's Serengeti

Central Purcell Mountains; today at 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) it is the largest protected wilderness in southern BC

Height of the Rockies; links to Banff National Park on the Great Divide

Tatshenshini, North America's Wildest River and heartland to the largest World Heritage Site complex on the planet.

In the early 1990s (as Tatshenshini Wild) we established the largest continental wilderness campaign network ever, Tatshenshini International, which linked together the 50 lead conservation organizations in North America (including such lead Canadian organizations as the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Western Canada Wilderness Committee, World Wildlife Fund, Sierra Club Canada, and Sierra Legal Defence Fund, and in the U.S., American Rivers, The Wilderness Society, Sierra Club, and National Audubon). In all these organizations represented 10 million members united in their desire to protect the heartland of the largest protected area on the planet. This campaign culminated successfully in 1993, when the 1 million hectare (2.5 million acre) Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Park was designated.

"Wilderness. It is a place, an experience, a tradition, a remembering, and a future. It is an ancient forest homeland, a living refuge for wildlife, a sanctuary for endangered species and biodiversity. Wilderness is the very archive of life."

(Ric Careless,
To Save the Wild Earth)

Tatshenshini, Spatsizi, Nitinat, Purcell Wilderness, Height of the Rockies, these are just some of the British Columbia wilderness campaigns that environmentalist Ric Careless has led, fighting long and hard for more than a quarter century to preserve almost 5.5 million acres of wilderness for future generations.Unique as a firsthand account of the evolution of British Columbia's environmental movement, To Save the Wild Earth ably demonstrates that wild places are Canadian and international treasures.

BC Spaces for Nature Information Brochure
Who we are and what we do.

Tourism and Protected Areas Management in British Columbia
How protected areas and tourism can be integrated for the maximum ecological and economic benefits.

Keeping the Special in Special Management Zones, A Citizens' Guide
What Special Management Zones are, how were they created, and how can they best serve their purpose.

Tatshenshini-Alsek Briefing Document
The story behind the successful campaign to protect North America's Wildest River.

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