Opinion: Conservation is not just a numbers game; quality matters. New parks should be chosen for biodiversity hot spots, rare ecosystems and carbon reserves.
Tucked inside the 2023 Ontario budget is a section titled “Creating New Provincial Green Spaces.” The item is a mere five sentences but makes a big promise: the creation of a new provincial park, the first of its kind in 40 years.
Growing protected places is crucial to addressing two other crises: climate change and biodiversity loss. At the UN biodiversity conference last year, Canada committed to protecting 30 per cent of lands and waters by 2030, which means doubling the current amount. At only 11 per cent protected, Ontario has a lot of work to do.
What criteria is being used to choose the lands being protected? Who’s involved? When will it happen, and how? Which First Nations’ territory is the park being planned on, and is the government engaging in full collaboration with local Indigenous communities? These questions remain unanswered despite the budget statement that “the location of the park and its facilities is in the process of being finalized.
Conservation is not just a numbers game, quality also matters. New parks should be chosen for biodiversity hot spots, rare ecosystems and the highest carbon reserves — such as old-growth forests and wetlands. They should connect with other intact natural spaces. All efforts to protect more nature must centre the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the public must be able to contribute to the plans according to the Environmental Bill of Rights.
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