The province is providing funding for conservation projects to restore and enhance wetlands across the province, including Saugeen Bruce Peninsula.
Over 100 projects across the province will split $6.9 million in funding, including $103,280 for the Nature Conservancy Canada and Saugeen Peninsula Invasive Species Collaboration.
The goal of the projects is to restore and enhance local wetlands, which includes management of invasive species like phragmites. The work will improve water quality, help prevent flooding and build climate change resiliency.
“We’re very proud of these historic investments and to be working with conservation organizations and municipalities to restore and enhance the health of wetlands in Ontario,” said David Piccini, Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. “We will continue to support more wetlands projects to ensure vital ecosystems in the province are protected, now and in the future.”
“Funding from the Ontario government’s Wetlands Conservation Partner Program allows the existing work to continue being done to control the populations of invasive phragmites,” said Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers. “This project is being done in coastal habitats along the Lake Huron shoreline and within inland wetlands.”
