HCT Announces Project Greenland 

April 1, 2025

The Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) has launched an ambitious $720 billion fundraising campaign to preserve the world’s largest island. The Green Space for Greenland Project will guarantee the sovereignty of the off-Cape territory, while creating a vast network of walking trails, vista observation areas and shag-carpeted warming huts.

Preliminary plans call for the construction of a visitor and educational center in Greenland’s capital city, Nuuk. The center will also feature inexpensive luxury accommodations, a sustainable discotheque and a vegan restaurant called Harwich East Eats.

HCT’s unprecedented capital campaign seeks to fund the purchase of a conservation restriction on the entire 836,330 square mile island, ensuring Greenlanders the autonomy to balance enjoyment of their existing development with protection of sensitive natural resources. An additional initiative to build saunas for each island resident is currently under (heated) discussion.

Thanks to its revised charter, HCT is able to preserve land outside Harwich in order to protect shared resources that cross political boundaries. Last year HCT helped to preserve a 10-acre woodland that spans the border with Brewster and connects to over 1,000 additional conservation acres. HCT has also preserved land on the border with Chatham to protect Muddy Creek and Pleasant Bay.

It is fair to say, however, that the Greenland project would be a slightly larger undertaking. To help raise awareness about the initiative and soon-to-come eco-tourism opportunities, HCT will be posting helpful Greenland tips at conservation areas throughout Harwich, in both English and Greenlandic. The new signs include “bring a sweater” (tujuulussuarmik nassarna) and “watch out for the melting glacier” (Sianiguuk! sermimi aakkiartortumi).

While the Harwich Conservation Trust is currently working on important projects in town, including the 50-acre Cape Cod Rail Trail Land Preservation Project and the Hinckleys Pond — Herring River Headwaters Eco-Restoration Project, we have convened a working group to address the preservation of Greenland.

The Help Undertake Greenland Expansion (HUGE) committee has begun the work of enlisting the estimated 27,000 volunteers needed to begin the project.

The Harwich Conservation Trust would like to wish everyone a happy April Fool’s Day and to thank all of our supporters who have made our (real) land-saving projects thrive. To find out more about these projects and donation opportunities, please visit harwichconservationtrust.org. See you in Greenland!