Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship

The Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship is accountable for integrated land and natural resource management, including objective setting for land and marine environments, effectively managing cumulative effects, and advancing reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, environmental sustainability, and economic growth.

Featured topics

• B.C. Drought Information Portal
  B.C. is taking strong, early action to keep people and communities safe through drought now, and in the years to come. Explore the portal to find the latest information on drought, along with water conservation tips.
• B.C. and Blueberry River First Nations working together
  The Province and Blueberry River First Nations are working together on a path forward in the Claim Area, following the June 2021 B.C. Supreme Court decision.
• Reconciliation
  Reconciliation and agreements focus on closing socio-economic gaps that separate Indigenous people from other British Columbians.
• Fisheries and Aquaculture
  Resources for those in the commercial fisheries and aquaculture industries.
• Great Bear Rainforest
  The Great Bear Rainforest covers 6.4 million hectares, and includes one-quarter of the world’s coastal temperate rainforest.
• Provincial Caribou Recovery Program
  The purpose of this program is to develop, implement and monitor new management actions and provincial strategies to ensure we are meeting or exceeding provincial and federal population and habitat objectives.
• Together for Wildlife Strategy
  Wildlife is very important to British Columbians. It provides social, economic, environmental and cultural benefits. For many of us, the existence of wildlife is a fundamental value.

Featured services

• Housing-related permits
  Making housing development projects easier with a new coordinated approach.

Minister

Deputy Minister