I think that the Act needs…

I think that the Act needs to be strengthened to provide more protection for our endangered species, and moreover for their endangered habitats. As a conservation wilderness forested acreage owner with significant environmentally-sensitive wetlands and watershed, I am witnessing untrammelled development and significant watershed landscape manipulation on Niagara's escarpment. These changes are impacting longtime residents and the species they protect. Trampling our province, which is not "filled" with fresh air and wilderness (it's filled with what we grow best - traffic and overly-consumptive, ostentatious, lifestyle-driven matchstick homes), seems to be the order of the day for Ontario's government and I have great trepidation that the proposals presented will continue to aid in the decimation of our most arable lands and deliver on creating greater efficiencies for industry which could subject the province's at-risk species — and our natural heritage — to even greater threats. Further weakening of the act could push many of these species over the brink. Getting help to protect the endangered species in my own backyard has been hard enough (lack of available educational signage, lack of endangered species awareness, lack of governmental priority for the health of our nation, lack of deterant for habitat manipulation, decimation and degradation, and more!) and I see the heart of many of these proposals as increasing the ability of artificial development and Environmental exploitation.