Funding comes through the federal Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk program
This funding will be used to determine the use and condition of Blanding’s Turtle habitat in the Junction Creek watershed to develop site-specific habitat restoration plans and mitigate threats to the recovery of local populations.
“This funding will be instrumental to the success of the ‘Filling Knowledge Gaps to Inform the Restoration and Conservation of Blanding's Turtle Habitat in Greater Sudbury’ project; providing the equipment, materials and staff required for carrying out field research and delivering outreach programs to meet recovery needs of species at risk turtle populations in the Junction Creek watershed,” said Miranda Virtanen, executive director of the Junction Creek Stewardship Committee, in a press...
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