The province is spending $30-million on a new program to create and restore wetlands.
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Steve Clark, outlines what you can expect from the Wetlands Conservation Partner Program.
In the first year of the five-year program, the province will partner with Ducks Unlimited Canada, an internationally recognized wetlands restoration organization, and provide $6 million to support wetlands projects in the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie drainage basins. Ducks Unlimited has a suite of over 60 projects that are fully scoped and ready to be implemented immediately.
In years two through five, the Province will partner with additional conservation organizations and fund wetland creation and restoration projects in other Great Lakes watersheds and inland waterways. These projects would include using innovative approaches for wetland creation and restoration to support municipal stormwater management.
Over the weekend, six members of the Greenbelt Council resigned citing new rules they say would gut environmental protections in the province. Clark assures he’s committed to growing the greenbelt.
Among the resignations over the weekend was David Crombie, the Chair of the Greenbelt Council.
Recently, the Federal Government announced funding to help Conservation Halton in protecting its creeks and the wildlife within them. You can read more on that here.
