Ecological restoration
Restore degraded lands, waters, habitats and urban spaces to improve biodiversity, ecological function, water quality and resilience.
Conservation · Restoration · Education
Protect the places that sustain us.
Turtle Island Land Trust protects and restores natural and urban spaces while creating opportunities for people to learn from the lands and waters around them.
Working across Canada
Our purpose
Healthy communities depend on healthy ecosystems. We work to restore degraded places, conserve lands and waters of ecological and community significance, and make those places part of public learning.
Our work
Repair what has been damaged. Protect what remains.
Land & habitat conservation
Acquire, hold, steward and protect places of ecological, cultural, health or community significance for long-term public benefit.
Urban nature
Bring ecological restoration into cities by improving buildings, lots and other urban spaces as places for habitat, learning and community connection.
Education
Learning should happen where ecology happens.
The Trust develops public education around conservation, ecological restoration, climate resilience and the relationships between people, land and water.
01 Courses, seminars & workshops
02 Land-based learning
03 Ocean-based learning
04 Research & publications
05 Public talks & exhibitions
About the Trust
A land trust built around restoration.
Turtle Island Land Trust is dedicated to environmental restoration, conservation and public education in Canada.
Our approach is practical: care for places over the long term, use restoration as a tool for ecological recovery, and connect conservation work directly to research, education and public participation.
Our initial work will focus on opportunities in Ontario, Nova Scotia and British Columbia, with growth guided by conservation need and organizational capacity.
Projects
Places worth caring for.
Project profiles will be added as properties, restoration initiatives and educational programs are established.
Coming soon
Our first restoration projects
Future project pages will document the place, ecological challenges, restoration approach, partners, monitoring and long-term stewardship.
Support the work
Help protect and restore places for the long term.
There are many ways to contribute: financial support, land or property gifts, partnerships, expertise and volunteer involvement.
Get involvedContact
Start a conversation.
Interested in conservation, restoration, donating property, supporting a project, or collaborating with the Trust?
Contact details will be published here shortly.