Grasslands Forever Legacy Endowment Fund

A gift to the Grasslands Forever Legacy Endowment Fund will ensure your continued support in conserving BC's unique and life sustaining grasslands. Your gift will be held in perpetuity for current and future grasslands conservation efforts, helping to:

• Foster greater understanding and appreciation for the ecological, social, economic and cultural importance of the grasslands throughout BC;
• Promote stewardship and sustainable management practices that will ensure the long-term health of BC’s grasslands;
• Promote the conservation of representative grassland ecosystems, species at risk and their habitats;
• Promote and support research that responds to the needs of grassland conservation, stewardship, range science and management, economics, and other related fields; and
• Promote and support ranching culture and practices that are ecologically, economically and socially sustainable.

How endowment funds work:

Making your donation to the Endowment Fund is like giving a gift that will keep on giving. Once added to the endowment, your money is invested by the Vancouver Foundation. Each year, GCC will receive a portion of the interest on the investment to use on grassland conservation programs and research. The remaining interest is re-invested into the endowment for future conservation efforts. Over time, the endowment will grow, providing the financial stability for effective and long-term conservation and stewardship programs and activities.

Your contribution is a charitable gift that will help ensure that British Columbia’s beautiful grassland landscapes and its cultures can be experienced by our current and future generations. Grasslands forever!

For further information call 250-374-5787 or email gcc@bcgrasslands.org.

Conserving grasslands is an international concern:

Hohhot Declaration
of the International Grasslands/International Rangeland Congress of June 2008

Recognizing that one of the most important opportunities for collaboration is ensuring worldwide societal recognition of the enduring value of natural grasslands;

Developing and implementing incentives for good land stewardship, restoration and the sustainable management of indigenous temperate grasslands is essential to guaranteeing their sustainable use as healthy working environments.

Therefore, we the participants of the Hohhot World Temperate Grasslands Conservation Initiative Workshop from five continents and 14 countries, declare that temperate indigenous grasslands are critically endangered and urgent action is required to protect and maintain the services they provide to sustain human life. We call upon all sectors of society to collaborate towards this goal.  

The full Hohhot Declaration is available on our Grasslands of the World page.