Turtle Island Earth Stewards - TIES

From 1975 – 2000 Tyhson Banighen was the founder and executive director of a nonprofit charitable society called TIES – Turtle Island Earth Stewards that brought the land trust movement to British Columbia. TIES assisted individuals and communities to protect the ecological aspects of their properties for present and future generations. TIES International worked with and assisted environmental org

anizations in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Ecuador and Grenada in the West Indies. Tyhson Banighen was a founding Board member of the Land Trust Alliance of B.C., which consists of over 40 organizations involved in the stewardship, restoration, enhancement and long term voluntary or legally binding protection of private property. In addition he is the past co-chair of the BC Council of International Cooperation that consists of over 32 organizations involved in international development in the Third World. He was also a member of the Steering Committee for the Forest Caucus of the Canadian Environmental Network that provides consultation to the Canadian government on global forest issues and was part of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Commission on Environment and Development.