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Financial contributions from local wilderness lovers were key to setting aside a huge, mountainous tract near Willisville and Whitefish Falls as conservation land.
“One of the tremendous positives out of this has been the people,” said Ted Cowan, treasurer with the Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy, which finalized its acquisition of the 1,984-acre property last week.
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“The Sudbury-Manitoulin area has roughly one per cent of the province’s population, and more than 50 per cent of the total funds we had donated came from that one per cent.”
NCC land purchase will create 1,100 km conservation corridor on peninsula
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The Nature Conservancy of Canada is working to finalize the purchase of approximately 400 acres of wood and wetland in Northern Bruce Peninsula situated on both Britain and Otter Lakes.
Mike Hendren, NCC regional vice-president (Ontario region), said during a government funding announcement Wednesday that the purchase is being completed .
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Hendren was joined by Bruce-Grey Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker, Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson and Ontario Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks Jeff Yurek in a Zoom conference call to announce more than $20 million in provincial funding over the next four years to the Greenlands Conservation Partnership. The funding will help conservancy groups secure land of ecological importance such as the Britain Lake parcel identified by the NCC in what they call the
NCC land purchase will create 1,100 km conservation corridor on peninsula
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