SLIDE 6 Vision/Mission statement Vision/Mission statement revision revision
- Our Vision: the integrity and biodiversity of Bowen Island’s
natural lands will be protected and enhanced for future generations.
– The Bowen Island Conservancy is a non-profit organization that acts in a stewardship role to work with Governments, landowners, and the public stewardship role to work with Governments, landowners, and the public to conserve, protect, sustain, and enhance the quality of the natural environment of Bowen Island, neighbouring islets and surrounding waters. – To accomplish this, we will initiate, lead, and use a creative and collaborative approach to the conservation of Bowen Island’s natural heritage by securing ecologically significant natural areas through purchases, donations, conservation agreements, or other mechanisms, and by achieving long-term stewardship through management plans and monitoring agreements.
Goals: The Bowen Island Goals: The Bowen Island Conservancy was established to: Conservancy was established to:
- Identify and initiate the establishment, protection, and management of environmentally sensitive areas,
including areas of vital habitat, areas with high scenic value, territories protecting watersheds, and conservation areas;
- Increase public awareness of, appreciation for, and understanding of the natural and heritage resources of
Bowen Island and the practices that sustain these resources;
- Facilitate research, public education, and community participation in environmental stewardship, land use
management and conservation;
- Collect, interpret, and publish information about Bowen’s resources and make this information readily
- Collect, interpret, and publish information about Bowen’s resources and make this information readily
available for use on Bowen Island, in order to contribute to public education and community planning;
- Participate in and contribute to the management of Bowen Island’s natural resources on public and
private lands;
- Liaise with all levels of government concerning future proposed land development plans which may
compromise the biological diversity of Bowen Island and its surrounding areas;
- Hold or administer, through conservation covenants or other legal means, the establishment, protection
and management of environmentally sensitive areas and conservation heritage areas;
- Raise money, acquire funds, accept gifts or other assistance, and own, by purchase, donation, covenant or
- therwise, land or personal property and manage such property or exchange, rent, lease or sell that
property to further the purposes of the Society;
- Undertake anything incidental and necessary to promote and attain the Society’s purposes.