rare Charitable Research Reserve
Certified Living Wage Employer
The rare Charitable Research Reserve is an urban land trust and environmental institute. rare protects over 1,200 acres of highly sensitive lands in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. The land at rare hosts trees more than 250 years old, 24 habitat types, and features 6 of 8 pre-settlement landscapes. At its inception, rare relied on conservation, research, and educational tools derived from Western practices to care for the land on behalf of the community.
As Rare becomes increasingly engaged in reconciliation with the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island (North America), those original pillars have gained flexibility. Our organization now equally includes and values Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Together we will steward these lands with respect for generations past, present, and those yet to come, intact in perpetuity.