Protecting nature is an effective solution for offsetting biodiversity loss, pollution and climate change.
Today, a few days before Canadian Environment Week 2024, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, announced that an investment of $8.2 million in Nature-Action Québec and its partners, the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Ducks Unlimited Canada, allowed these organizations to carry out activities to protect and restore the critical habitat of the Western Chorus Frog in Montérégie and the Outaouais.
In 2024, Nature-Action Québec used part of the investment to acquire over 13 hectares of natural areas in Boucherville, La Prairie and Longueuil. These areas are protected in perpetuity and will improve the ecological connectivity of the critical habitat of the Western Chorus Frog, a threatened species in Canada. Restoration, communication, and municipal engagement projects were completed, and measures aimed at combatting invasive alien species were also carried out. In 2023, the financial support enabled Ducks Unlimited Canada to protect a property of over 10 hectares in the Outaouais that is home to many different species, including the Western Chorus Frog. Since the launch of the project in 2022, over 42 hectares have been protected in the Outaouais and over 39 in Montérégie.
