Conservancy Property Management Strategy

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Property Management Strategy:  
Management of Islands Trust Conservancy Nature Reserves and Covenants  
 
 
 
 
 
April 4, 2017 
Resolution No. TFB-2017-007 
 

 
 
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i. Executive Summary 
 
The Islands Trust Act establishes the Islands Trust Conservancy to acquire, hold and manage 
land and receive donations for the purpose of carrying out the object of the Islands Trust. The 
Islands Trust Conservancy primarily acquires land with significant ecological value for the 
purpose of establishing Nature Reserves. The Islands Trust Conservancy has policies that 
describe the roles and responsibilities of the Islands Trust Conservancy Board, including Policy 
2.3 Acquisition and Management of Land which states: 
 
An Islands Trust Conservancy Nature Reserve is an area that has been set aside because it has 
regionally significant natural ecosystems (landscape units with little or no human development) 
and may contain nationally and provincially identified ecosystems and species that are 
considered endangered, threatened or of special concern. The primary purpose of a Nature 
Reserve is the preservation and protection of the natural ecosystem. The size of a Nature 
Reserve should be sufficient to ensure that these ecosystems remain viable over the long term. 
Activities permitted on a nature reserve will have minimal impact on the land and in general will 
only include hiking and only in areas that are considered not sensitive to this activity.  
 
Management of the nature reserves under the Islands Trust Conservancy ownership includes 
the registration of a conservation covenant, development and implementation of a 
management plan, annual monitoring, and in most cases, enlisting the assistance of a local 
management group. Management of conservation covenants includes annual compliance 
monitoring and communication with landowners and covenant holders. Conservation 
covenants may also require the assistance of a local management group if there is no local 
group present as a covenant holder. The Islands Trust Conservancy identified in its Regional 
Conservation Plan a need for: 
 
 the establishment of a species at risk monitoring program (Objective 27);  
 inventories for species at risk where they had been known to historically occur 
(Objective 28); 
 the establishment of a coordinated invasive species monitoring and removal program 
(Objective 29); and 
 the establishment of ecosystem monitoring programs on selected properties (Objective 
30). 
 
Development of a strategy to support decision-making and prioritize activities with the goal of 
maintaining or increasing the ecological integrity of the protected areas will help determine 

 
 
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where the resources and efforts will have the most impact. This strategy sets up how we record 
information and how we use it to guide decision making by addressing the following: 
 efficient recording of the pertinent information;  
 use the information, to analyse the viability, the threats, an

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