Description

The rare Charitable Research Reserve is an urban land trust and environmental institute in Waterloo Region/Wellington, with its first seven locations protecting over 1,200 acres of highly sensitive lands. Our ultimate goal is to make the world a more sustainable place by stewarding a diverse network of natural landscapes for ecological integrity and for future generations through conservation, research and education. Since inception, rare has taken care of the land on behalf of the community through the use of Western tools in conservation, research and education. As rare becomes engaged in reconciliation with the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island (North America), these pillars have gained flexibility and now equally include and value Indigenous ways of knowing and being — becoming three strands of a strong braid. Together we will steward these lands with respect for generations past, present and those yet to come, intact in perpetuity with trees more than 250 years old, 24 habitat types, and 6 of 8 pre-settlement landscapes.