For the past several years, our South Coast Conservation Field Crew has been working hard to restore the sensitive sand dune ecosystem at our Savary Island conservation area. This is one of the few remaining dune systems along the BC coast. Unfortunately, invasive Scotch broom has taken hold and is outcompeting native vegetation, like the endangered contorted-pod evening primrose.
By donating to the Savary Island Stewardship Fund, you are providing vital funds to help our team protect and restore this vital and rare ecosystem for future generations.
NTBC’s Savary Island conservation area is protected forever thanks to a community of conservation champions that rallied together to save 350 acres of vital habitat from the threat of development. The land, once slated to be subdivided and developed into a gated community, is now protected for future generations of wildlife, plants, and communities.
For more than two decades, NTBC, the Savary Island Land Trust, and other conservation partners worked to protect this land, which contains some of Canada’s last intact coastal sand dunes. In 2002, NTBC purchased and protected an initial 50% undivided interest in the land. In 2017, the Friends of Savary DL 1375, the Savary Island Land Trust, and NTBC launched a campaign to purchase and protect the remaining land, raising over four million dollars to complete the project.
Since 2019, NTBC has protected the entire 350+ acres of the Heart of Savary Island, working to restore the landscape and ensure its ecosystems are healthy in perpetuity. Donate today to support this ongoing restoration and stewardship work!
Since purchasing and protecting the Savary Island Conservation Area forever, our South Coast Crew has been hard at work ensuring the ecosystem can flourish for the species that rely on the dunes to thrive. For years, along with community volunteers, we’ve been working to restore habitat for the endangered contorted-pod evening primrose, a plant with a mere eight remaining populations in Canada.
To protect the contorted-pod evening primrose’s habitat, our crew has been removing invasive Scotch broom for several years. Thanks to this persistent yet slow effort, the primrose’s population is slowly recovering. In spring of 2026, the crew tallied up a record-breaking number of the endangered plant — with a total of 209 contorted-pod evening primrose plants inventoried!
To help support this ongoing restoration work, donate today to the Savary Island Stewardship Fund.
We gratefully acknowledge that our Vancouver office is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, who have been stewarding this land since time immemorial. Our work and conservation areas encompass many lands throughout the province, and we humbly acknowledge the First Nations communities who live on and steward these lands.
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