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Wildlife & Natural Spaces

Wildlife & Natural Spaces
Ford Attacks Eco-Defenders Who Expose Secrecy and Deception
Posted on March 8, 2019Endangered Species Act Review - New Assault on Thin Green Line of Environmental Protections In Ontario
Posted on March 8, 2019Written by Dr. John Bacher, Ph.D.
Originally posted here.
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The Gulf is Dying
Gretchen Fitzgerald — February 24, 2019On Monday, February 25th, we will be in court arguing that the licence to drill in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is illegal.
Bighorn Country Proposal: Taking a stand for conservation in Alberta
Lindsay Boucher — February 21, 2019A Special Message From Gretchen Fitzgerald, National Program Director
Melissa Munro — December 31, 2018Our National Program Director Gretchen Fitzgerald has a little VIDEO MESSAGE for you.
Wishing you and yours a peaceful and safe New Year.
Melissa Munro - Director of Development and Communications
Bee Nests Are Back For The Holidays!
Posted on December 12, 2018Help support Sierra Club Canada Foundation’s efforts to save the bees through our partnership with Armstrong and Blackbury. Until December 19, buy 3 Solitary Pollinator Bee Nests for $60. Be a safe haven this holiday season!
WHY A BEE NEST?
Dizolve Laundry Eco-strips and Sierra Quarter-Zip Top - Friends of Friends of Sierra Club 2018
Melissa Munro — December 1, 2018Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Artist Gerald Beaulieu’s Road-Killed Crows are too Big to Ignore
Wanda Baxter — November 24, 2018Retired Provincial Planner Victor Doyle Wins Victory at Crucial Time
Jerry Dong — November 19, 2018In a crucial time, when the land use planning policies he, himself, helped forge under three different parties, over 25 years, are under attack by the newly elected government of Premier Doug Ford, veteran land use planner, Victor Doyle, won a major victory.
Ominous Meeting Begins Growth Plan Consultations
Jerry Dong — November 13, 2018On November 8, 2108, the newly elected Ontario government began a procedure to revise land use planning processes in Ontario. The setting was the “Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Stakeholders Forum” which was held at the Ontario Room of the MacDonald Block at 900 Bay Street in Toronto on November 8, 2018. Also in attendance was Sierra Club Ontario Chapter’s own Dr. John Bacher. (Photo shows Thundering Waters wetlands where offsetting scheme was tried in past.
Montrez votre soutien au premier parc urbain national de l’Anse-à-l’Orme dimanche, le 16 sept
RuiLin Guo — September 4, 2018Au nom de Sauvons l’Anse-à-l’Orme, nous vous invitons à vous joindre à nous et à d’autres citoyens préoccupés par l’environnement pour
une visite guidée des magnifiques champs et forêts qui forment le corridor de l’Anse-à-l’Orme suivi d'une conférence de presse.
National Hike for the Environment 2018 - Social Media Assets
Melissa Munro — August 17, 2018Find Sample Social Media and Outreach Messages here!
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Greenbelt: The LPAT Appeal To Rescue Thundering Waters Forest
Jerry Dong — August 15, 2018At 9:46 AM, August 13, 2018, in the Niagara Falls Clerk’s Department, Dr. John Bacher filed a letter of appeal against Amendment 128 to the Niagara Falls Official Plan. The amendment aims to pave over 120 of the 500 acre Thundering Waters Forest. Most of the forest is considered provincially protected wetland barred from development. At the same time, much of the amended lands is known as the Riverfront Community consisting of an unusual savanna complex dominated by a native shrub species, the Dotted Hawthorn. (Photo: Martin Munoz)
Watch for Wildlife Expands to New Brunswick!
RuiLin Guo — July 27, 2018Greenbelt: Niagara Regional Official Plan Threatened by Skewed Science
Jerry Dong — July 11, 2018(Niagara’s official plan policy consultant, David Heyworth. Photo: The St. Catharines Standard)
The Niagara Region has embarked on a new three-year process to develop a new Official Plan. What hinders this path, possibly to ruin, is that it is heavily influenced by a peculiar type of environmental stakeholder: consultants in the pay of developers.
Greenbelt: Reports Suppressed To Support Destruction of Thundering Waters Forest
Jerry Dong — July 9, 2018(Acadian Flycatcher. Photo: Edward Plumer)
On May 8, 2018, the Niagara Falls City Council voted to approve what is now termed the Riverfront development. This would, if approved by the Ontario Land Use Planning Tribunal (LPAT), call for the destruction of 120 acres of diverse natural habitat, some of which is now protected wetlands.
Greenbelt: Haudenosaunee Strive to Protect Thundering Waters Forest
Jerry Dong — June 14, 2018The Thundering Water Forest is a 500 acre woodland on the Welland River in Niagara Falls. For over two years, a struggle has been taking place between the Haudenosaunee First Nations and GR (CAN) Investment Co. Ltd., an investor for massive commercial and real estate development in Niagara Falls.
Greenbelt: Celebrating Greenbelt Expansion in the Niagara Region
Yvonne Ho — January 23, 2018Despite enormous pressures from developers and municipalities in the Niagara Region, the provincial government denied all requests to shrink and dilute the Greenbelt. This was done in two locations. One was in Grimsby south of the Niagara Escarpment, in an area that is increasingly being used for tree fruit and grape crops. Another is in a corridor from Lake Ontario to Lake Gibson, along the Twelve Mile Creek.