US EditionCarney rolls out new $3.8 billion nature strategy, new conservation areas
The $3.8 billion plan includes new parks in Quebec and Manitoba and aims to protect 30% of Canada’s land and waters by 2030, with private sector investment also sought.
- On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a $3.8 billion nature-protection strategy in Wakefield, Quebec, designed to create new national parks and marine conservation areas toward Canada's 2030 conservation targets.
- Following the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, the Trudeau government committed four years ago to protecting 30 per cent of Canada's land and waters by 2030, establishing the foundation for this new strategy.
- Carney announced immediate creation of the Wiinipaawk Indigenous Protected Area and National Marine Conservation Area in Eastern James Bay, plus the Seal River Watershed National Park in Manitoba.
- Currently, about 14 per cent of land in Canada is protected; the new marine measures aim to add 12 per cent, bringing total protected waters to 28 per cent by 2030.
- Private sector investment will be essential to supplement the $3.8 billion, Carney said, addressing recent warnings from conservation groups that federal ambitions had outpaced long-term funding commitments.
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'Historic' $3.8-billion pledge for nature protection a 'heartening' signal after 'unfortunate delay,' say conservation groups
Métis National Council's Kelsey Scarfone called it a 'historic investment,' while Nature Canada's Emily McMillan says it shows protecting 'nature is still prominent for this government.'
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a $3.8 billion plan to better protect salmon, polar bears, or to create new national parks. At COP15 on biodiversity, in 2022, nearly 200 countries committed to protecting 30% of the world's land and water by 2030. In Canada, only 14% of the country is protected, so the country has four years to double that figure. And the measures announced are concrete, but deemed insufficient by some.
Carney government recommits to conserving 30 per cent of land by 2030
The federal government's new nature strategy includes important funding for Indigenous Guardians programs and reiterates Canada's biodiversity commitments, but advocates say Carney's major projects agenda must also align with his government's stated nature goals.
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