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In a conservation economy,

growth

Ecotrust Canada Annual Report 2006

‘getting rich slow.’

is about

It is about ensuring that companies and communities profit on the interest, not capital, of nature. That means harvesting trees without destroying the rainforest ecosystem. It means fishing without erasing the very stocks that feed us. It means tapping into energy sources that are clean and renewable. But most of all, a conservation economy is about people — where they live, how they prosper. People, place and profit. That’s the conservation economy.

Ecotrust Canada Annual Report 2006 / Page 1

Executive letter

A Conscious Economy Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, has arguably had a more transformative effect on how people think about the environment than any other single event of this generation. Now the hard part starts: turning awareness into action. That’s because “action” is often viewed only through the lens of consumerism. Drive a smarter car, buy a carbon offset, screw in a fluorescent light bulb — all of these actions worthy, but somehow not quite enough. If people — and by extension the governments we elect, and the companies we invest in or work for — all now have a heightened consciousness about the environment, why can’t we have a more conscious economy? Why is there such a yawning gap between the economy we want — one that delivers clean air, clean water, healthy food, good jobs and time to share with families — and an economy that overheats the planet and imperils us all? In a word, investment. With rare exceptions, there is vastly too little capital invested in enterprises that strive not just for a financial return, but for social and environmental returns as well. Without a fundamental shift in how we view money, the gap between what we want and what we get from our economy will continue to grow. As we envision a conservation economy, we realize we are also striving for a conscious economy — one where people invest their money, save their money and, yes, spend their money carefully, intentionally, consciously. At Ecotrust Canada, we take encouragement from Europe’s Triodos Bank, and its vision of the future of finance. “If money makes the world go around, why not turn it in the right direction?” Triodos asks. It champions “conscious investment” in businesses that make a difference, which enables customers and consumers to do so, too. Closer to home, we take heart from the Great Bear Rainforest agreements that have brought new capital to our coast — a conscious effort to invest in conservation and communities. We applaud investments in leadership, as in the selection of Guujaaw, president of the Council of the Haida Nation, as winner of the 2006 Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership. And we make investments of our own — in the stewardship future of Cougar Annie’s Garden, in new fishing, forestry and energy enterprises, and in our new subsidiary, Ecotrust Canada Capital. As befits an organization whose resources are modest and whose ambitions are boundless, we rely on many partners to achieve our goals. As such, we take comfort from the fact that a lot of people seem to want the same thing we do. A conscious, indeed a conservation economy.

Jacqueline Koerner Chair

Ecotrust Canada Annual Report 2006 / Pages 2 / 3

Ian Gill President

hooked on conservation

a thousand-year business plan Conservation doesn’t have to be about stopping logging. Instead, think about a thousand-year business plan that generates value from our forests for generations to come. That’s what ecosystem-based management (EBM) can accomplish. This new eco-forestry approach minimizes the risk to the ecosystem first, and then designs appropriate logging to suit. The rainforest ecosystem remains fully functional after low-impact logging. Ecotrust Canada is a leader in understanding and implementing EBM forestry on the B.C. coast. We have established partnerships in Clayoquot Sound, the Great Bear Rainforest and Whistler to prove that EBM forestry works for communities and conservation.

Groundfish are some of the slowest-growing fish on the B.C. coast. Quillback rockfish have been known to live to 76 years and red snapper to 117 years. A female spiny dogfish reaches reproductive maturity after 19 years. A sustainable fishery of these long-lived species demands the highest conservation standards in the world. In 2006, Ecotrust Canada partnered with a group of Vancouver Island fishermen to found and finance the Pacific Coast Fisheries Conservation Company. This unique enterprise owns fish quota and leases it to member-fishermen to improve their sustainable fishing practices. These hook-and-line fishermen represent a sea change in how we harvest our ocean’s bounty.

growing wisely Nestled between the wet coast and dry interior plateau — a transition zone known as the Sea to Sky corridor — the Lil’wat people are witnessing unprecedented growth in their traditional territory. They receive some eighty referrals for development projects each year. The population in neighbouring Pemberton has ballooned and the region will host the 2010 Winter Olympics. Ecotrust Canada helped the Lil’wat Nation in Mount Currie launch a new Geographic Information Systems or GIS Program to map out the development pressures in their territory. Through GIS and proper planning, the Lil’wat are making more informed decisions about the use of the rivers, lands and wilderness in their territory.

going against the grain Alfred Butterfield and Dali Lin are going against the grain in more ways than one. While most of B.C.’s forest companies are building bigger and faster mills, these two business partners launched TF Sawmill, a small specialty mill in Cumberland that operates at a fraction of the speed of most industrial mills. Its niche is quality, not quantity. As they buck conventional wisdom, TF Sawmill bucks logs differently too. Logs are cut from the inside-out creating highly stable lumber of exceptional appearance. TF Sawmill is just one of the innovative enterprises that Ecotrust Canada financed through our business lending program this year.

06 Program highlights

Business Lending

Real Estate

Transforming progressive ideas into profitable enterprises is at the heart of building a conservation economy. One way we do this is by providing loans to small- and medium-sized enterprises. This year our new subsidiary, Ecotrust Canada Capital, made 15 new loans totaling $1.7 million to entrepreneurs who incorporate ecological values in their operations, and who promote jobs and diversification in rural and Aboriginal communities. Some 354 people were employed in full-time, part-time and seasonal jobs by businesses financed by our lending program in 2006. More than a quarter of our portfolio is made up of Aboriginal entrepreneurs, including a new loan to Taku Wild, a fisheries enterprise owned by the Taku River Tlingit First Nation.

Our work this year centred on feasibility studies for a new administrative building for the Tsleil Waututh Nation in North Vancouver and a downtown redevelopment project for the ‘Na-mgis Nation in Alert Bay. We also produced a study on real estate opportunities in Clayoquot Sound for the Nuu-chah-nulth Central Region Management Board.

GIS & Planning Our work this year shifted in two telling directions in the Great Bear Rainforest on the Central Coast. First, we began working with the Heiltsuk Nation in Bella Bella to implement their land-use plan in two distinct watersheds. Second, modeled on the success of this terrestrial work, the Heiltsuk marine-use planning process completed initial work on the community’s vision, and on data collection and research. Ecotrust Canada also developed the first phase of the Lil’wat’s Indian Reserve plan in Mount Currie and built an electronic catalogue to better manage their geographic information. The catalogue’s innovative software was then shared with the Haida and Heiltsuk. We continued to provide support to the Haida Mapping Office and built a GIS model of biophysical diversity for Haida Gwaii.

Aboriginal Mapping Network Revamped and relaunched, the Aboriginal Mapping Network (AMN) has a bold new look and many new functions including discussion forums, a network user map and job postings. The website is now based on open-source software and allows mappers from British Columbia and around the world to share best practices in Indigenous people’s mapping methodologies. Launched in 1998 as an online resource for local First Nations, the AMN has expanded into a global hub of Aboriginal know-how. From Africa to Ahousat, more than 800 users across six continents have registered with the AMN (see map below). For more information visit www.nativemaps.org.

Aboriginal Mapping Network Worldwide registered users

Tourism For the past 20 years, Peter Buckland has doggedly worked to reclaim Cougar Annie’s Garden and to build the Temperate Rainforest Field Study Centre in Clayoquot Sound. In 1999, he founded the nonprofit Boat Basin Foundation to maintain and operate the 117-acre property located above Hesquiat Harbour 50 km northwest of Tofino. This year Ecotrust Canada became a stewardship partner to help the Foundation deliver research, educational and cultural tourism offerings at the Field Study Centre and historic garden. For more information visit www.boatbasin.org.

Ecotrust Canada Annual Report 2006 / Pages 8 / 9

06 Program highlights

Fisheries In partnership with six commercial fishermen, Ecotrust Canada founded and financed the Pacific Coast Fisheries Conservation Company, an innovative business model that promotes community-based fisheries and conservation. The company owns a pool of groundfish quota which its member-fishermen lease at a fair price to better enable them to meet new fisheries conservation rules. The fishermen have also agreed to a “conservation covenant” furthering their commitment to sustainable fishing practices. We are now developing software to improve the efficiency of recording catch and trading quota in B.C.’s integrated groundfish fishery. This year we also worked on marine monitoring programs with the ‘Na-mgis Nation in Alert Bay and Tsleil Waututh Nation in Burrard Inlet, and provided corporate governance advice for Qum’ul Seafoods Inc., a new enterprise launched by the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group on Vancouver Island.

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Prince Rupert

Masset

Terrace

British Columbia

Forestry Ecotrust Canada is a leader in developing and implementing ecosystem-based management (EBM) for forestry on the B.C. coast. EBM ensures that the entire forest ecosystem remains fully functional and protected even after logging. This year we signed a landmark contract to manage Iisaak Forest Resources, a First Nations-owned forestry operator in Clayoquot Sound. Certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, Iisaak is one of the pioneers in EBM forestry. Our goal is to meet the highest environmental standards for forestry in the province, increase the value of spin-off benefits to the local communities and boost the company’s financial bottom-line.

Bella Coola

Bella Bella Namu

Ecotrust Canada Program Activity

We also partnered with the Heiltsuk Nation to design and implement EBM forestry in their territory in the Great Bear Rainforest, and worked on EBM with the Haida as well. Other projects this year included completing an FSC woodlot plan for the Tsleil Waututh Nation in Indian Arm and a value-added feasibility study for the ‘Na-mgis Nation in Alert Bay. -

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Fisheries

Alert Bay

Aquaculture GIS and Planning

Tahsis

Lending Energy

Tofino

Forestry

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25 50

Port Alberni

Powell River Squamish Sechelt Parksville Vancouver

Real Estate

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Whistler

Comox Valley

Hesquiat

Tourism

Mt. Currie

Campbell River

Cowichan Valley Ladysmith

100

150

Kilometres

Ecotrust Canada Annual Report 2006 / Pages 10 / 11

Victoria

the richest place on earth Cougar Annie’s Garden is rich in tales. Ada Annie Rae-Arthur raised eight children, outlasted four husbands and reportedly shot more than eighty cougars during her seventy years living in the wilds of Clayoquot Sound. This year Ecotrust Canada became a stewardship partner in the Boat Basin Foundation which owns and operates the pioneer heritage site.

Ecotrust Canada 06 Financials*

Summarized Consolidated Statement of Activities and Surplus

Revenues and Assets: 2002–2006

For the year ended December 31, 2006 2006 Unrestricted Temporarily Total restricted



2005

Revenues, gains, and other support Organization grants $ 104,287 $ 172,714 $ 277,001 $ 23,992 Individual contributions 165,464 63,457 228,921 77,889 Foundation contributions 863,638 2,772,826 3,636,464 2,576,217 Other contributions 3,132 74,269 77,401 64,041 Training, cost recovery & other 412,719 – 412,719 443,633 Loan fees and interest 236,919 – 236,919 221,910 1,786,159 3,083,266 4,869,425 3,407,682

$8,000,000 $7,000,000 $6,000,000 $5,000,000 $4,000,000 $3,000,000 $2,000,000 $1,000,000

Satisfaction of program restrictions 1,163,798 (1,163,798) – – 2,949,957 1,919,468 4,869,425 3,407,682

2002

2003

Revenues

2004

2005

2006

Assets

Program Expenditures 2006 Administration & Fundraising 18% Planning & Information Services 15%

Natural Capital Fund 2% Enterprise Fund 2%

Sector Programs 22%

Expenditures Sector Programs Aquaculture 56,233 – 56,233 47,806 Energy 10,841 – 10,841 15,489 Forestry 266,854 – 266,854 268,349 Real Estate 240,601 – 240,601 28,302 Tourism 105,934 – 105,934 200,785 Fisheries 118,759 – 118,759 158,237 General Programs 536,703 – 536,703 485,436 Economic Development 876,010 – 876,010 882,145 Planning and Information Services 539,178 – 539,178 571,109 Administration 222,328 – 222,328 167,045 Fundraising 414,255 – 414,255 402,504 Natural Capital Fund – 84,576 84,576 (7,658) Enterprise Fund 88,416 – 88,416 31,592 3,476,112 84,576 3,560,688 3,251,141 Surplus of (expenditures over revenues) revenue over expenditures

General Programs 15% Economic Development 25%

* Full audited financial statements can be viewed at www.ecotrustcan.org

(526,155) 1,834,892 1,308,737

156,541

Surplus, beginning of year 482,291 3,640,132 4,122,423 3,965,882 (Deficit) surplus, end of year

$ (43,864)

$ 5,475,024

Ecotrust Canada Annual Report 2006 / Pages 14 / 15

$ 5,431,160

$ 4,122,423

06 Donors

Board of Directors

Staff

Ecotrust Canada

Kristina Barr, Operations Assistant

Individuals

Brenda Reid-Kuecks

Prata Investments Inc.

Organizations/Government

Anonymous

Nancy Schaub

Cindy Reid

Alchemy Foundation

Don F. Archibald

Robert M. Shaunessy

Heide Reid

Alliance Projects

Kristina Barr

Derek Smith

Susan J. Sadoway

Anonymous

Spencer Beebe

Pieter van Gils

Salon J. Hairstudios

Bullitt Foundation

Leah D. George-Wilson, North Vancouver, BC

Lori Cribbs, Loan Client Account Representative

Betsy & Winslow Bennett

Allan Waisman

Lesley Sheehan

Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Foundation

Ian Gill, Vancouver, BC

Ian Gill, President

Michelle Bonner

Bryan Williams

Ship Shape Carpentry

Connor, Clark & Lunn Foundation

George Butterfield

Michael Woods

Rosalind Shortt

Donner Canadian Foundation

Barry Campbell

Abby Yellen

Yvon Chouinard

James Hume, Calgary, AB

Eva A. Stammer

Ford Foundation

Jane Hennessey, Director of Development & Communications

Neeltje Stavast

The FSC Global Fund

Jacqueline Koerner (Chair), Vancouver, BC

Philip Hogan, Central Coast Planning Analyst

Barbara Strachan

Foundation for Youth

Maureen Lunn, Vancouver, BC

Doug Hopwood, Registered Professional Forester

Studio 103

Government of Canada

David Martin, Vancouver, BC

Jill Sydneysmith

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Steven Tieu

The Illahie Foundation

Susan E. Vasilev

International Development Research Centre

Marika Veysey

Richard Ivey Foundation

Victoria Bug Zoo

The Kahanoff Foundation

Karin Watson

John C. Kerr Family Foundation

Beverley A. Wells

Koerner Foundation

Aveda

Robert Friedman

Mary Biyak

Ian Gill

Blush Salon & Spa

Bill Girard

Brenda Bowes

Ronald Grzywinski

Paul Ceyssens

Yvette Harrison

Chakra Holdings Inc.

Jane Hennessy

Larissa L. Domay

Jean Jordan

Eco-Chic

Gregory J. Kehm

Lisa Edwards

Debbie & Jonathan Klein

Sharon Evans

Jacqueline Koerner

Diane Fryer

Program Related Investments

Rick Kohn

Headwest Designs Ltd.

Calvert Foundation

Lucy Lee

Hana L. Hermanek

Endswell Foundation

Stuart R. Loewen

David Jardine

The Illahie Foundation

Larry & Maureen Lunn

Juliette’s Hair Studio

Maytree Foundation

Sandy Mactaggart

Renee Justesen

Robert McGill

Andrea Lloyd

Monarch Community Fund

David J. Martin

Luna Aveda Concepts Salon

Penny & Peter Pearse Dennis Perry

Alfred Morgan Margaret Oldroyd The Parkers Paul Da Costa Institute Lois D. Peterson

Yvette Harrison, Director of Finance

Endswell Foundation

John R. Evans

Sue Moore

Bill Girard, Investment Manager

Dream Designs

Rhonda Eager

Karen Peachey

Michael Cabrita, IT Administrator

E.D. Sollitt

alternative wares

Tina Masse

Ronald Grzywinski, Chicago, IL

David Bremner, Manager of Grant Development

Lois Slotten

Aveda Earth Month Donors

Paul Ng-Stewart

Spencer B. Beebe (Vice Chair), Portland, OR

Michelle Bonner, Development Associate

Byron Horner, Vancouver, BC

Sandra and Sterling Clarren

Mark R. Munn

A-in-chut (Shawn Atleo), Ahousaht, BC

Working Opportunity Fund

Eric (Ric) Young, Toronto, ON

Jessica Hawkins, CED Project Planner

Greg Kehm, Information Services Manager Dionne Kilian, Credit Manager Rick Kohn, Chief Financial Officer Brenda Kuecks, Director of Community Programs

Ecotrust Canada Capital John Berdes, Ilwaco, WA Dominque Collin, Victoria, BC

Law Foundation of British Columbia

Ian Gill, Vancouver, BC

Lazar Foundation

Bill Young, Toronto, ON

The C.P. Loewen Family Foundation Inc.

Eliana MacDonald, Cartographer / GIS Trainer Jill Morton, Program & Operations Assistant Mark Munn, Development Associate Paul Ng-Stewart, Investment Manager Karen Peachey, Director of Community Programs Marie-Claire Seebohm, Project Services Manager Jen St. Denis, Office Administrator Eric Enno Tamm, Communications Manager

Marisla Foundation

Pieter van Gils, Director of Economic Development

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Mike Vitt, Forestry Program Manager

Moore Family Foundation

Niki Westman, Program & Financial Assistant

Murray-Darling Basin Commission

Nina Winham, Vice-President

Oak Foundation

Abby Yellen, Executive Assistant to the President

Patagonia Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia Rockefeller Brothers Fund Service Canada Social Activist Law Student Association Tides Canada Foundation Vancity Weyerhaeuser Wilburforce Foundation

Kathryn Phillips

Place FSC logo here

Photo credits: Chris Cheadle, cover; Eric Enno Tamm, pages 3, 6, 7, 13, 14; Adrian Dorst, page 5; Gary Fiegehen, page 8

Revenue Canada Charitable Registration Number 89474 9969 RR0001

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