• The Land Conservancy’s Deertrails Naturalist Program Returns to the Upper Clearwater Valley in 2024

    The Land Conservancy of B.C. (TLC) is pleased to announce a spring 2024 session of the Deertrails Naturalist Program from May 14 to 19, 2024.

    This four full-day workshop invites deep immersion in the practice of place-based living. Set in the beautiful Upper Clearwater Valley near Wells Gray Provincial Park, it’s designed for students, teachers, artists, naturalists – anybody seeking to build resilience into their lives in times of climate change by connecting with the living world.

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  • Bowen Island Now Protected Land!

    American Friends of Canadian Conservation (AFCC) is excited to announce the protection of Bowen Island, a 15-acre island with 4,200 feet of shoreline located in the Township of Tarbutt, Ontario, in the St. Joseph’s Channel of the St. Marys River. AFCC’s partnership with The Kensington Conservancy made this land donation possible.

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  • Help Protect a Mature Coastal Douglas-fir Forest on Denman Island

    The Nature Trust of British Columbia is fundraising to protect 38.7 hectares (95.6 acres) on Denman Island, a Northern Gulf Island in the Salish Sea, located close to Vancouver Island and within the K’ómoks First Nation traditional territory. The property is adjacent to a Denman Conservancy Association conservation area called Central Park and the Denman Island Provincial Park and Protected Area. Once purchased, this ecologically valuable conservation complex will increase to 187 hectares, increasing connectivity and ensuring that it will never be sold or developed.

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  • Help Protect Rare Grasslands and Vital Corridor for Endangered Wildlife in South Okanagan

    The Nature Trust of British Columbia has been given the opportunity to purchase 11 hectares (27 acres) of rare and ecologically important temperate grasslands along the Similkameen River. The Nighthawk Hill Grasslands is located in the Similkameen Valley southeast of Keremeos and west of Osoyoos. Once purchased, this biodiversity-rich area will be protected as a conservation area, ensuring that it will never be sold or developed. This campaign will be running through the end of 2023.

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  • American Friends of Canadian Conservation’s name describes the organization’s mission.

    We exist to help our conservation colleagues achieve their objectives by increasing the level of funding available for land conservation and by partnering to complete donations of ecologically significant land and easements from US-based landowners who wish to avail themselves of US tax benefits while ensuring that their contribution of appreciated property is not subject to Canadian capital gains tax.

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  • Save Some Green

    U.S. taxpayers who own natural lands in Canada are often interested in transferring their property to the next generation of family members and/or permanently protecting their lands in Canada. In both cases, conservation can be a valuable legal and financial strategy. There are tax incentives in both the U.S. and Canada to encourage conservation of priority natural lands in Canada.

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American Friends of Canadian Conservation protects Canada’s magnificent natural legacy through its innovative and effective partnerships.

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Americans interested in donating their Canadian land or a partial interest can accomplish both their conservation and estate planning objectives through a gift to American Friends of Canadian Conservation.

Canadian conservation leaders report that in prime vacation areas such as the Maritimes, Great Lakes’ island country and British Columbia’s Gulf Islands some of the most ecologically significant land is owned by US citizens. Many of these properties are part of multi-generational family traditions that link our two countries.

Conservation-oriented Americans are often familiar with land trusts that operate in the US and therefore recognize that donating land or a conservation easement can provide both personal satisfaction and positive financial results. The aging of the baby-boom generation means that many families are engaged in estate planning. According to a 2002 Wall Street Journal article by Jeffrey Zaslow, “Vacation home ownership rose 13% in the 1990s, to 3.5 million homes. Today, one out of every seven homeowners over age 65 also owns a second home that must be factored into their estates.”

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Canadian Partners

American Friends of Canadian Conservation exists to help our conservation colleagues achieve their objectives by increasing the level of funding available for land conservation and by partnering to complete donations of ecologically significant land and easements from US-based landowners who wish to avail themselves of US tax benefits while ensuring that their contribution of appreciated property is not subject to Canadian capital gains tax.

Accomplishing our mission through these activities requires American Friends to comply with laws, statutes and tax regulations in both countries. Some of the best legal minds and most experienced conservation professionals worked for more than a decade to establish the system, policies and procedures that make American Friends’ partnerships and successes possible, now and in the future.

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