Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust announces landmark conservation project in Eastern Ontario, and party to support it
It’s a great reason for a party!
On Aug. 24 starting at 2 p.m., join the Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust (TIWLT) to celebrate what the group is calling one of the largest, and certainly the most significant conservation project ever in Eastern Ontario.
When it comes together, the Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust – together with several landowners and donors – may very well double the forever protected lands and wetlands in and surrounding Charleston Lake Provincial Park.
“We’d love to meet you at the land trust’s Glen Elbe Learning Centre, just north of Brockville on County Road 42,” a media release from the organization states.
The event will include music by River City Junction, a live auction, ribs and chicken on the grill, tasty treats and a cash bar. The event will celebrate landowner heroes, and introduce guests to the details of this very important project that aims to protect, forever, the best of habitats for wildlife of this remarkable region.
The details and tickets for that Saturday afternoon’s event are available on the land trust’s website.
Why here? In this watershed (UNESCO Frontenac Arch Biosphere), 64 of Ontario’s 264 (25 per cent) species at risk find refuge habitat. There is no other place where five forest regions of eastern North America merge, giving a truly unique ecology to this superlative landscape. It’s also the location of the major migration route of wildlife of the eastern continent – not only a passage for seasonal migrants, but for a critical path of forests themselves to adjust ranges in climate change.
“Nature across the globe is under crushing stress with climate change, and vanishing populations of wildlife and wild lands,” the media release explains. “The time for working together now is critically important. Collaborating, the park, land trust, the Schad Foundation, generous donors and willing landowners will pull together a substantial and meaningful green and blue refuge that will endure through the ages.”
For 31 years, the Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust has worked with very willing landowners in its 1,000 square kilometre region to conserve nature. As a non-profit registered charity, the land trust has many tax and legal tools to offer everyone great value to pitch in.
“We can’t wait to show you and tell you all about this landmark project, where you can be a part of a real solution, locally, for climate change and to stem losses of the wildlife and wild places we all love,” the release concludes.
For more details, please reach out to info@tiwlt.ca.