The Sea to Sea Green Blue Belt is a local conservation initiative aimed at linking existing parklands and marine areas from southwest Salt Spring Island to Sooke Basin. Once complete, the corridor will provide a recreational paradise for walking, hiking, horseback riding, wilderness backpacking, kayaking and other outdoor pursuits – a priceless legacy for residents and visitors to the Capital region.
Areas within the Green Blue Belt, like the Sooke Hills, provide important habitat and corridors for large mammals such as black bear, elk, cougar and Vancouver Island gray wolves. These lands support many small mammals, birds and amphibians as well as a wide variety of rare and beautiful wildflowers and populations of wild coho and chum salmon, which spawn and rear in the Greenbelt’s creeks and rivers.
Once completed, the Sea to Sea Green Blue Belt will also protect our region’s beautiful forest backdrop and provide a continuous corridor of protected wildland as a sanctuary for remaining native plants, birds and animals.
To accomplish the Green Blue Belt vision, TLC is raising funds to purchase some key connecting properties. These parcels of land are crucial components of the Greenbelt – without them, the continuous corridor of wild forestland from Saanich Inlet to the Sooke Basin will be lost.
 Mt Manuel Quimper by Heath Moffat. |
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The Land Conservancy has also protected lands through Conservation Covenants on several parcels within the Green Blue Belt.
The Wild Hills and Beaches Campaign is TLC’s current campaign in the Sea to Sea Green Blue Belt.
