NTBC has established two scholarships and one grant in honour of distinguished scientists and past members of our Board of Directors: the Bert Hoffmeister Scholarship at the University of British Columbia, the Dr. Ian and Joyce McTaggart-Cowan Scholarship at the University of Victoria and the Brink/McLean Grassland Conservation Fund.
The Rain Garden Fund has been created thanks to our donors.
Bert Hoffmeister was the first chairman of NTBC and guided the organization for 20 years. This scholarship is awarded annually to a graduate student in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. It is a joint effort by NTBC, Wildlife Habitat Canada, BC Ministry of Environment and the Province of BC and is administered by the University of British Columbia.
Bert Hoffmeister Scholarship Recipients
Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan was a scientist, researcher and director of NTBC. NTBC established the Dr. Ian and Joyce McTaggart-Cowan Scholarship to recognize graduate students in the School of Environmental Studies, focusing on endangered species recovery at the University of Victoria. The scholarship is administered by the University of Victoria.
Dr. Ian and Joyce McTaggart-Cowan Scholarship Recipients
For over 50 years, Dr. Bert Brink and Dr. Alastair McLean dedicated their lives to the conservation of BC’s natural legacy, particularly the grasslands of the Southern Interior. To ensure this conservation continues, this fund promotes applied research, habitat restoration and other stewardship activities that will assist in the management of the land, plants and animals of BC’s native grasslands. This fund is administered by NTBC.
Further information can be found here.
If you would like to discuss a project, please email Leanna Warman at info@naturetrust.bc.ca or call 604-924-9771.
Brink/ McClean Grassland Conservation Fund Recipients
NTBC has established an endowment fund to support community rain garden projects. This initiative addresses the environmental and economic advantages of getting stormwater back into the ground, as well as the desirability of raising citizen awareness and supporting local involvement in aquatic habitat protection. Thanks to our donors, the Rain Garden Fund currently stands at $100,000.
If you want to discuss a project, please email us at communications@naturetrust.bc.ca or call 604-924-9771.
Rain Garden Fund Recipients
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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