BC Spaces for Nature staff have played a leadership role in successful conservation campaigns spanning over 25 years which have led to the protection of more than 5.5 million acres, in places such as:

• 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.

(To see images of these areas and other successful BC Spaces conservation campaigns, please visit the Wild Earth slide show. For more information on these campaigns see the book To Save the Wild Earth.)

More recently we led the effort to protect one of the foremost grassland areas in all of BC; the Empire Valley Ranch. As well, this year we were successful in getting the BC government to implement a land use plan that protects a further 600,000 hectares (1.5 million acres) in the central interior region of the province.

BC Spaces for Nature has for many years worked in close association with our province's lead conservation organizations. In the early 1970s Ric Careless, now BC Spaces Executive Director, co-founded the Sierra Club of B.C. which continues to play a key role in conservation issues in British Columbia today.

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.

In 1992 BC Spaces founded the Environmental Mining Council of BC (EMCBC) to ensure that BC's conservation movement could properly address mining issues. The EMCBC thrives today as an independent leading-edge organization.

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