Islanders will benefit from new efforts to protect natural areas and fight climate change.
Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and P.E.I.’s Environment Minister Brad Trivers recently announced the federal government is providing over $1.4 million to the Island.
These funds are being provided through the Target 1 Challenge component of the Canada Nature Fund.
This project will help conserve approximately 4,400 hectares of high-priority areas and habitats, including P.E.I.’s forests and wetlands, and will expand upon existing protected areas and establish new conserved areas in the province.
The project will protect P.E.I.’s old-growth forest and will have numerous benefits for species at risk, including the common nighthawk, the Canada warbler and the rusty blackbird.
P.E.I. and other partners, including Ducks Unlimited Canada, Island Nature Trust, Nature Conservancy of Canada and the Mi’kmaq Confederacy of P.E.I., are contributing $3.4 million in cash or in-kind donations to this $4.8 million project.
Through the $500-million Canada Nature Fund, the federal government supports the efforts of partners across the country to protect nature.
Federal investments are matched by philanthropic foundations, corporations, not-for-profits, provinces, territories and other partners, raising a total of $1 billion for conservation action in Canada.
