Ontario Increasing Investment in the Greenlands Conservation Partnership

The Ontario government is working with partners and conservation leaders to protect more natural areas and promote healthy, natural spaces.

The Greenlands Conservation Partnerships program helps secure land to conserve ecologically important natural areas and protect wetlands, grasslands and forests —  the single largest provincial fund to support private land protection in Ontario.

Building on the success of the program, we are investing an additional $14 million to expand the protection of ecologically important natural areas and preserve the province’s natural diversity.

The funding will help partner organizations such as the Nature Conservancy of Canada and the Ontario Land Trust Alliance secure, restore and manage new protected wetlands, grasslands and forest areas and open additional natural spaces for Ontarians to enjoy.

Since the program was launched in 2020, the Greenlands Conservation Partnership has protected nearly 167,000 hectares (approximately 412,000 acres) of land across the province — that’s an area two and a half times the footprint of the City of Toronto. 

Learn more: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1003202/ontario-increasing-investment-in-the-greenlands-conservation-partnership