Protecting What Sustains Us: Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy, released in 2005, recognizes that all Ontarians have a role in protecting the province’s biological diversity. The strategy identifies a number of key actions that will help Ontario reach its biodiversity conservation goals:
- Protect the genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity of Ontario.
- Use and develop the biological assets of Ontario sustainably, and capture the benefits from such use for Ontarians.
This interim report, an important milestone towards reporting on the state of Ontario’s biodiversity in 2010, is not a comprehensive report. Instead, it is a gathering of information from existing sources, presented in plain language and illustrated with focus stories. The goal of this report is to initiate the process leading to the first report in 2010 by describing the path forward and providing background context to highlight some of the issues, challenges, and opportunities ahead.
Inside the report, you will find information about Ontario’s ecosystem, species and genetic diversity, a discussion of threats to biodiversity and stories about organisations and initiatives that are helping to conserve Ontario’s biodiversity.
