South Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Program is a partnership of fifty local, regional, provincial and national organizations, agencies, and local governments.
Our dedicated team boasts a wide array of environmental expertise in conservation biology, planning, environmental management, and agroecology, ensuring the best collaborative work among the partners.
Keeping Nature in Our Future identifies why we should conserve and restore natural areas, which natural areas should be protected and restored, who can contribute, how and when conservation and enhancement of these natural areas can be achieved, and the role of natural areas in protecting regional biodiversity.
The South Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Program (SOSCP) is a partnership initiative that offers a platform on which a wide array of organizations can come together and combine efforts to conserve the unique biodiversity of the region and protect the diverse habitats in which it thrives.
Founded in 2000, the SOSCP is now made up of more than 50 partner organizations, including federal, provincial and local governments, nonprofits, and First Nations, all working collectively to ensure the protection of one of the most biologically diverse and at-risk regions of Canada.
SOSCP functions to coordinate and facilitate the work of the partners, streamline their conservation efforts, deliver key conservation priorities, raise public awareness, and educate the community on the need for conservation in the region.
With the help of our partners, we strive to make a significant, lasting impact on the quality of all life in the communities we serve.
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The Stewardship Centre of BC describes stewardship as “…not just a technique. It is a philosophy, and a commitment to act in an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable manner.”
Among the most influential regional groupings are organizations such as the South Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Program.
We would never have accomplished our OCP work without the support and leveraging of this partnership. The highlight of this project is my new understanding of the uniqueness, sensitivity and importance of the natural environment of the South Okanagan
