I am extremely sad after…

I am extremely sad after reading the ESP 10th Year Review Comments regarding Ojibway Nature Reserve & Tallgrass Prairie in Windsor, ON. The Endangered Species Act seems to have failed saving endangered species in Essex County/Windsor.
The proposed development lands for a big box development is less than 40 metres from Ojibway Prairie.
We do not need additional traffic, created by the building of a big box store and widening of Matchette Road, so close to the precious Reserve and Prairie. Do governments at all levels not care about the endangered and at risk species? What is the Endangered Species Act doing to protect species? Why is it so easy for developers to receive ESP Permit Applications? Apparently plans are in place to add eight more tools for developers to gain approval for developing endangered species habitat. This will further weaken the ESA. We need a stricter Ontario Endangered Species Act, not a watered down one!

Those proposed development lands themselves are host to 100 endangered & threatened species.
Ojibway itself hosts 4000 species, 160 Ontario species at risk, & 21 endangered & threatened species.

Tall grass prairies is a globally endangered ecosystem, having gone from 23% coverage in North America to less than 0.1% now.
The number of endangered & threatened species in Ojibway have increased from 13 to 21 since 2009.

Why on earth do we need another big box store so close to this precious area? Can it not be built elsewhere? Several stores have closed in the past 1.5 years in Windsor...Sears, Bombay, Bowrings, with Home Outfitters soon to follow. Windsor’s population has not supported the malls and big box stores we have now.
Countless store fronts are closed and there are acres of empty cement parking lots. Can this big box store not be built on one of these empty sites?

Please consider these facts before allowing this big box store development to go forward so close to Ojibway. Please also consider closing Matchette Road in the area around Ojibway. Our species at risk are depending on you, and so are we.