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© Lora Denis
On October 20, 2024, Ontario’s new Provincial Planning Statement (PPS) officially came into effect. This overhaul of the province’s land use planning framework merges the former PPS (2020) with the ...
April 11, 2024–Janet Stavinga
Conservation News•Campaigns and advocacy•Habitat•Nature Network•Wetlands
Lookout over the Goulbourn Wetland Complex, a provincially significant wetland, at the headwaters of Poole Creek, along the Trans Canada Trail just west of Stittsville. © Brian Beattie
In a province already experiencing extensive wetland loss, one would think all efforts would be made to protect those that remain. However, from March 2023 to March 2024, 156 hectares ...
Northern leopard frog © Jozsef Szasz-Fabian