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Category: Protected Places

A Path to Protection: Making OECMs Count

January 30, 2020–Samantha Cava

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Protected Places

© antefixus21 CC BY 2.0

People are often fearful of something new. This fear can result in unwillingness to break from routine – which, arguably, has been the case in conservation across Canada for many ...

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Put Nature First in Rondeau Provincial Park

December 6, 2019–Anne Bell

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Habitat•Protected Places•Species at Risk•Wild Species

Nodding pogonias © David McAdoo CC BY 2.0

Patience may be a virtue, but in the case of Rondeau Provincial Park, we’ve waited long enough. For over 60 years, the Government of Ontario has acknowledged the need to ...

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Make Way For Pits and Quarries!

October 4, 2019–Anne Bell

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Conservation News•Protected Places

Quarry © Noah Cole

Here we go again. Relentless in the pursuit of its “open for business” agenda the Government of Ontario wants to weaken protections for nature in order to fast-track development across ...

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A Golden Opportunity: Make Provincial Wildlife Areas Count

August 29, 2019–Anne Bell

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Conservation News•Protected Places

Oak Ridges Moraine © Jason Kalmbach c/o Ecospark

As a party to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada has an international obligation to protect at least 17 percent of its lands and inland waters by 2020.   ...

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Windsor to Permanently Protect Ojibway Shores

August 8, 2019–Lisa Richardson

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ON Nature Magazine•Protected Places•Species at Risk

© David Coulson

An ecological hot spot in Windsor is one step closer to permanent protection. Last summer, the City of Windsor announced the plan to take ownership of Ojibway Shores, a 13-hectare ...

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