Our Mandate
The KCP mandate is to coordinate and facilitate landscape-level and local conservation efforts focusing on private lands, share conservation knowledge and expertise, and build support and resources for this effort.
KCP does not directly pursue conservation projects. Rather, as a partnership, KCP supports its members to pursue activities that help realize shared goals.
OUR VISION
The KCP vision is to have connected habitats and landscapes in the Kootenays that sustain biodiversity and naturally functioning resilient ecosystems that, in turn, support community well-being.
OUR PURPOSE
Kootenay Conservation Program (KCP) is a broad partnership of land and water conservation and stewardship groups, First Nations, other government agencies, and agricultural producers working throughout the East and West Kootenays. KCP recognizes the continued loss of biodiversity and the threat that this poses to nature and community well-being. The partnership seeks to cooperatively conserve the biological diversity and naturally functioning ecosystems of the region through land conservation and stewardship while sharing knowledge and expertise, building financial support, and promoting collaboration. KCP seeks to have a group of partner organizations who utilize and contribute to the best science in their practice, work collaboratively in productive and efficient partnerships, coordinate private land activities to achieve landscape-level objectives in conservation, and positively influence private land stewardship and conservation in the region. The KCP service area is in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Ktunaxa, Secwépemc, Sinixt and Syilx Okanagan who have stewarded this land since time immemorial.
KCP 2024-2029 Strategic Priorities
KCP’s approach is to support land conservation for biodiversity and ecosystems in a ‘one river, one watershed’ approach by promoting collaboration, providing support to partners through sharing of knowledge and expertise and building financial tools, and coordinating stewardship and land conservation in our service area.
Our complete Strategic Priorities 2024 – 2029 document is available here (9 pages).
GOAL 1:
SECUREMENT
Increase the effectiveness, collaboration and coordination of private land securement.
GOAL 2:
STEWARDSHIP
Increase the effectiveness and coordination of stewardship activities taking place on private lands.
GOAL 3:
CAPACITY BUILDING
Build and provide technical, financial and internal capacity for KCP and partner organizations to undertake securement and stewardship activities.
GOAL 4:
NETWORK
Strengthen the network of conservation organizations through communications to achieve efficiencies, synergies and ultimately greater effectiveness.