How dare the Ontario…

How dare the Ontario government announce plans to eliminate its Endangered Species Act.This is a significant step backwards for bird conservation in the province. The change would end provincial legal habitat protection for endangered and threatened birds as the proposed new Species Conservation Act will only provide protection for the “dwelling place” or nest. Habitat conservation would only be achieved through voluntary measures or federal government intervention. This is a disgrace.

I wrote to let the Ontario government know you care deeply about the future of at-risk birds and want to see the forests, wetlands, and grasslands they depend on protected for future generations. Do not eliminate or reduce the Endangered Species Act. The government should be adding more green spaces to protect habitat and adding more species to protect. The economy is a TERRIBLE reason to risk habitat. We need nature both intrinsically but also for economic reasons like sequestering carbon, purifying the air we breath by making oxygen, ensuring food webs are intact so birds can eat mosquitos etc. it's a terrible shame if this legislation passes, thinking only of the economy and not of the beautiful, valuable green spaces that provide habitat for nature. Birds have already decreased immensely over the past several decades do to habitat loss. Pollinators are needed to keep farms operating so people are fed, but they need homes to live in and habitat to thrive.