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Conservation covenants and TLC: A ten year retrospective

Dive into the world of conservation covenants and TLC as presented by Christina Waddle. Learn about the legal agreements, monitoring processes, successes, challenges, and the future of covenant management with GIS technology. Discover the significance of protecting private lands in British Columbia and the role of charitable trusts in safeguarding biodiversity.

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Conservation covenants and TLC: A ten year retrospective

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  1. Conservation covenants and TLC: A ten year retrospective ESRI User Conference, Thursday, June 21, 2007 Presented by: Christina Waddle Regional ManagerVancouver Island/Coast Region

  2. Special Places. Forever, for Everyone.

  3. Presentation Overview • Introduction to TLC • What are conservation covenants? • Conservation covenants and TLC • The future: GIS and covenant management Arbutus tree, Arbutus menziesii

  4. What is TLC? • Charitable, non-profit land trust, protecting private land in BC

  5. What is a conservation covenant? • Legal agreement between a landowner and a conservation organization, binds current and future owners • Very similar to a conservation easement in the US • Restricts use of the land to protect certain values • Legislated by Land Title Act amended in 1994 • Increasing land prices increase value of covenants Sea blush, Plectritis congesta

  6. Land Ownership in British Columbia

  7. Top 5% Rarity Hotspots in British Columbia Prepared by G.G.E. Scudder, University of British Columbia Department of Zoology and Centre for Biodiversity Research

  8. First Steps in the Conservation Covenant process • Landowner submits application to TLC, review and approval process • Once approved, several steps are required prior to registration

  9. From Approval to Registration • Baseline Documentation Report • Covenant document drafting • Possible survey and/or appraisal report

  10. Registered covenant management • After registration, annual monitoring is required • Landowner visits for danger trees, waivers, violations, etc. • Dealing with violations

  11. Trincomali Nature Sanctuary

  12. Conservation Covenant Successes • Protect over 1300 hectares, with over 150 individual covenants • Leading the way on covenants in BC, cooperation with the Land Trust Alliance of British Columbia and others • Cooperation with landowners and the community

  13. Conservation Covenant Challenges • Accurate and complete baseline inventories • Annual monitoring obligations • Violations • ‘Development Covenants’ • Second generation landowners • Solutions… one will include GIS

  14. The Future: Covenant management and GIS • Develop geodatabase to store and display data, and generate maps for baseline documentation reports • Accurate and complete baseline inventories • Complete and georeferenced record of monitoring observations and violations • Additional program for properties we own and manage, including possible future research

  15. For more information contact: Christina Waddle Regional Manager Vancouver Island/Coast Region cwaddle@conservancy.bc.ca (250)479-8301 Thank you to the Society for Conservation GIS International Scholarship Program.

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