Wilde Land Conservation and Education Corporation
We hold the land.
We care for the land.
Who We Are
A registered Canadian not-for-profit organization conserving and stewarding land on the Niagara Escarpment for education, science, and ecological restoration.
Wilde Land Conservation and Education Corporation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to conserving and stewarding land for education, science, ecological restoration, and public benefit.
We were created around a simple belief: protected land should not only be preserved. It should also be understood, cared for, restored, and used to educate the next generation of land stewards.
Our flagship property, Kimbercote, demonstrates this model in practice. It is home to a network of mission-aligned not-for-profit organizations that use the land for outdoor education, early childhood learning, field science, restoration, native species production, and community stewardship.
Wilde Land's role is to protect and steward the land that makes this work possible.
We hold the land.
We care for the land.
We create the conditions for education, science, and conservation to happen on the land.
Mission
Mission
To conserve and steward land for education, science, and ecological restoration, while creating living campuses where children and communities learn conservation by actively practicing it.
Vision
Vision
A network of protected land-based education campuses where children, educators, scientists, and communities work together to restore ecosystems, study the natural world, and become active stewards of the land.
What We Believe
Values
Five principles that guide how we work, how we steward land, and how we think about education and conservation on the Niagara Escarpment.
Stewardship
Land is not just something to own or visit. It is something to understand, care for, and protect over time.
Education through responsibility
Students learn deeply when they are trusted with real work in real places.
Science in practice
Good conservation begins with observation, evidence, monitoring, and humility.
Restoration over extraction
We believe land use should improve ecological health, not diminish it.
Community of care
The strongest conservation work happens when schools, families, scientists, local organizations, and communities work together.
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See the Model in Practice
Kimbercote is the first full expression of the Wilde Land model — a living campus where conservation, education, and science happen together on real land.