Dear Editor:
RE: Rare joins 87 Canadian land trusts calling for federal funding for land conservation, Oct. 31.
As a community, we need to prioritize our land conservation efforts for the sake of future generations. Not only are we preserving and protecting our home now, but the home for our children, and our children’s children.
As a high school student, I love the idea of having a surplus of conservation areas that are protected from the rapid population growth and housing craze happening in Canada today.
Because of the development of urban areas in Wellington County and Waterloo Region, it is vital to protect our conservation areas. These areas are necessary for the wellbeing of wildlife, protection of nature and a support for the physical and mental health of people in the surrounding areas.
It is so important, as a community, to sustainably house the growing population while also protecting our precious green land.
The Ontario Land Trust Alliance, partnered with the Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts, is helping this cause and Canada’s goal of protecting 30% of land and water by 2030.
These groups are encouraging Canadians everywhere to sign their parliamentary petition to extend their funding for the Land Trusts Conservation Fund in order to help preserve natural spaces.
I absolutely love this campaign to save our forests and strongly urge you as a reader to help this cause and protect the forests for the wellbeing and sustainable growth of the future generations in Canada.
Mikaia Jagt,
Centre Wellington