A team of students from McMaster University and Niagara College have been herding ‘eco-goats’ through the Hamilton Naturalists’ Club’s (HNC) Sheelah Dunn Dooley Nature Sanctuary, removing common buckthorn, dog strangling vine, multiflora rose, and other introduced plant species along the way.

The dual crises of climate change and rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss have spurred international action, including a commitment from the Government of Canada to conserve 25 per cent of Canada’s lands, freshwater, and oceans by 2025, working toward 30 per cent by 2030. With support from the Government of Canada and Government of Ontario, the Southern Ontario Nature Coalition (SONC) released its Final and Technical reports in 2021, sharing important insights and solutions to biodiversity lost through a Near-Urban Nature Network.

In ‘Greenbelts Around the World Responding to Local and Global Challenges’, the Greenbelt Foundation examines how greenbelts have evolved to respond to current and emerging conditions found within cities and regions around the world.

In 2020, ApexRMS conducted a wildlife corridor mapping study is to support biodiversity conservation and management activities in the Cootes to Escarpment EcoPark System. With support from the Greenbelt Foundation, the project identified habitat patches and movement corridors that promote landscape connectivity.