Toronto and Region Conservation Authority Celebrates Progress Made to Restore Fish and Wildlife Habitat

With the guidance of funding from the Governing administration of Canada below the Terrific Lakes Security Initiative

April 22, 2022 – Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) and Environment and Local climate Modify Canada (ECCC) celebrate and emphasize nowadays, on Earth Day, development created to restore fish and wildlife habitat in the Toronto and Location Location of Worry, with the guidance of funding from ECCC, in partnership with the Town of Toronto, under the Excellent Lakes Protection Initiative and in partnership with the City of Toronto.

Councillor Paula Fletcher, Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth, and a member of TRCA’s Govt Committee and Board of Directors, along with Julie Dabrusin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Organic Means and to the Minister of Atmosphere and Local climate Adjust, celebrated the progress today at Tommy Thompson Park (TTP) for TRCA’s ‘Wildlife Habitat Restoration in the Central Toronto Waterfront’ project, which addresses earlier environmental damages that resulted in habitat decline and negatively impacted wildlife populations.

The venture has received additional than $200,000 in funding from ECCC’s Good Lakes Protection Initiative and the Metropolis of Toronto. ECCC is a important funder of the habitat restoration is effective carried out at TTP and throughout the waterfront. By the Wonderful Lakes Protection Initiative, ECCC has contributed additional than $1.1M to TRCA for habitat restoration assignments at TTP due to the fact 2013.

This existing undertaking gives many co-positive aspects to wildlife communities, like fish, birds, and turtles. Common Tern rafts will raise nesting area and aid Toronto’s breeding populace, turtle nest protection buildings will reduce mammalian predation and enhance hatching achievement, a custom made h2o control structure baffle will lower beaver damming activities that at the moment avert fish access into the TTP Embayment D wetland, and invasive phragmites administration will restore coastal wetland biodiversity and strengthen general public leisure experiences.

Total, the project improves biodiversity on Toronto’s waterfront and promotes general public appreciation for our waterfront and purely natural spaces.

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“On Earth Day, and each and every day in in between the once-a-year celebration, TRCA, with assist from ECCC and Metropolis of Toronto, is operating to increase and secure biodiversity in our jurisdiction. We enjoy the economical aid from our companions that make these assignments and development achievable. We glimpse forward to doing work with each other on upcoming tasks that continue on to restore the pure atmosphere for the benefit of wildlife and citizens.”
— Councillor Paula Fletcher, Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth, and a member of TRCA’s Govt Committee and Board of Directors

“As we rejoice Earth Day, we reiterate the Govt of Canada’s motivation to guard the Excellent Lakes, such as by advancing initiatives to restore water high-quality and ecosystem well being in the Toronto and Region Area of Worry, so that generations to occur can keep on to take pleasure in these sources. By supporting community initiatives, we go on to make progress and supply on Canada’s commitments below the Wonderful Lakes H2o Excellent Arrangement.”
— Julie Dabrusin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Organic Means and to the Minister of Surroundings and Climate Modify

Quick Facts:

• The funding is from Atmosphere and Local weather Alter Canada’s Good Lakes Safety Initiative, with matching cash from TRCA’s Metropolis of Toronto cash levy.
• This project is one particular of 32 jobs totalling $3.1 million more than 3 several years, under the Great Lakes Defense Initiative announced by the Minister of Surroundings and Climate Adjust in December 2021.
• This job contains:
• the addition of 3 Widespread Tern Rafts at TTP and the Toronto Islands, raising nesting opportunity for somewhere around 180 Frequent Tern pairs and
• handling the invasive phragmites plant throughout 2.5 ha of coastal wetlands and shorelines at TTP, adopted by planting 8,150 native emergent aquatic vegetation to restore the vegetation community.
• Community engagement will occur during spring, summertime and tumble 2022, with four volunteer stewardship gatherings, 10 curriculum-joined faculty applications, a household-friendly community restoration-primarily based function, and an educational movie.

About Toronto and Area Conservation Authority (TRCA)
With much more than 60 a long time of expertise, TRCA is one particular of 36 Conservation Authorities in Ontario, made to safeguard and increase the wellbeing and very well-currently being of watershed communities through the protection and restoration of the natural atmosphere and the ecological products and services the ecosystem presents. Extra than 5 million folks reside inside TRCA-managed watersheds, and lots of other folks perform in and pay a visit to places across the jurisdiction. These nine watersheds, furthermore their collective Lake Ontario waterfront shorelines, span 6 upper-tier and 15 reduce-tier municipalities. Some of Canada’s biggest and speediest increasing municipalities, including Toronto, Markham and Vaughan, are located completely in just TRCA’s jurisdiction.

To study more about TRCA, check out trca.ca.

Media Make contact with

Diana Ginsberg Cohen
Communications and Media Relations Specialist
Toronto and Area Conservation Authority (TRCA)
[email protected]
(647) 271-9894