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Land in Ontario
Ontario is Canada’s second-largest province, covering more than one million square kilometres (415,000 square miles). Of that surface area, land makes up 894,639 square kilometres (344,092 square miles). The land and the resources it contains, such as aggregates, oil, salt, gas and sources of renewable energy, are vital to all residents of the province.
MNR’s Role in Land
Valuing Ecosystem Services
Estimating Ecosystem Services in Southern Ontario
By: Spatial Informatics Group, Austin Troy & Ken Bagstad (2009)
Ecosystem services are the benefits that people obtain, either directly or indirectly, from our ecological systems. These services can be understood in ecological terms and they can also be translated into economic terms through valuation studies. These services are the foundation of human well-being and they also represent a significant part of the total economic value of our landscape and economy. And yet their value is most often uncounted, assumed to be ‘zero’. It is therefore important to be able to estimate the economic value of ecosystem services. - Read More...
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- Land Eligibility Criteria: Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program
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Get Involved
- Report Violations on Crown Land If you are witness to a resource violation within Ontario, please call the Ministry of Natural Resources TIPS line at: 1-877-TIPS-MNR (847-7667).
- Ontario’s Environmental Registry … read and comment on recent EBR postings.
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Last Modified: November 17, 2009