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Letter to the Toronto Star

30 Thursday Jul 2015

FRW Letter to Star Editor Published July 21 2015

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Important news

30 Thursday Jul 2015

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ecological integrity, federal lands, National Park

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A PDF showing letters to the editor of The Globe and Mail from a former Parks Canada chief scientist and FRW’s president slam Rouge National Urban Park legislation.

Potential 100 square kilometre Rouge Park

10 Wednesday Sep 2014

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100 square kilometres, endangered species, Recommendations, Rouge National Park

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Major environmental groups applaud Ontario’s refusal to transfer Rouge Park lands

09 Tuesday Sep 2014

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CPAWS Wildlands League, David Suzuki Foundation, Environmental Defence, FRW, Nature Canada, Ontario Nature, Save the Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition, Sierra Club Canada

… the draft federal legislation does not prioritize ecological integrity in park management and it does not honour a January 2013 Memorandum of Agreement signed between Parks Canada and the Ontario government requiring written park policies that ‘meet or exceed provincial policies.’

NGO media statement (September 3, 2014) applauds provincial meet or exceed stance.

NGO media statement (Sept. 3, 2014) applauds provincial meet or exceed stance. Click on image to view PDF.

Third Edition of “How Much Habitat is Enough?”

09 Tuesday Sep 2014

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How Much Habitat is Enough? Third Edition

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This publication FroM Environment CANADA is used in “land use planning, restoration projects and land securement initiatives across the multiple jurisdictions and has become a standard conservation biology and landscape ecology reference.”
Some of this publication’s key recommendations …
  • 30% to 50% minimum forest cover,
  • the greater of 10% wetland cover per watershed or 40% of historic wetland cover,
  • less than 10% impervious cover in a watershed
  • average grassland patches sizes of greater than or equal to 50 hectares.

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  • National park status sought for Rouge Valley A 16,000-hectare national park should be created on Toronto’s eastern boundary, stretching from Lake Ontario to the Oak Ridges Moraine …
  • Ontario cabinet minister: Ottawa failing to protect Rouge National Urban Park Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid writes that if Ottawa is unwilling to put stronger protections in the legislation creating the national park, the province won’t transfer the land.
  • UTSC partners with Parks Canada on Rouge National Urban Park In an historic agreement with Parks Canada, the University of Toronto Scarborough has taken …

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