NPSBC Code of Ethics

NPSBC members:

  • Understand that plants are essential to all life trillium_ovatum
  • Acknowledge the intrinsic value of native plants and habitats
  • Recognize the botanical history and diversity of the province
  • Acknowledge human impacts on native plants and habitats
  • Are respectful of and receptive to First Nations’ traditional knowledge and unique relationship with the plant world
  • Conserve native plants and habitats and maintain biodiversity of natural ecosystems
  • Preserve and protect rare native plant species and habitats
  • Promote restoration of altered land and reintroduction of appropriate native plant species
  • Encourage establishment of native plants in developed areas
  • Share knowledge and promote understanding of native plants and habitats