Conservation Lands

Conservation Lands spatial and attribute data. This includes related information on various types/classes of land secured for fish, wildlife and habitat conservation purposes. It includes Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) designated by Order in Council (OIC). Source data are from Tantalis as well as the derived product from GeoBC. Overlap between this dataset and the NGO Conservation Areas - Fee Simple dataset will occur where NGO lands have been leased to the province. Discrepancies between the provincial layers and this dataset are due to differing source cadastral information. A Conservation Cross Reference Table provides a link between this dataset and the NGO Conservation Areas – Fee Simple dataset. The CIP_PCL field in the NGO Conservation Areas dataset links to the Conservation_Land_ID field in the provincial Conservation Lands dataset.

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Last Updated April 17, 2026, 19:15 (UTC)
Created April 17, 2026, 19:15 (UTC)
contact_email Christina.Waddle@gov.bc.ca
contact_person {"en": "Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Wildlife", "fr": "Gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique; Gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique; Wildlife"}
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open_canada_keywords {"en": ["OIC", "WMA", "conservation", "conservation land", "wildlife management area", "Government information"], "fr-t-en": ["OCI", "WMA", "préservation", "terres protégées", "zone de gestion de la faune", "Information gouvernementale"]}
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