Click on your province to hear about upcoming events
 and projects in plant and habitat conservation.

Millennium Trail Building Project

People from Comox, British Columbia, are working on improving their park, called Macdonald Wood Park. The 9.2 acre forest has 50 bird species, 60 species of plants and a community of deer. Some of the Douglas-fir trees are over 200 years old! The people of Comox will add new nature trails and help conserve and protect the land and its inhabitants.

Comox, British Columbia
Macdonald Wood Park Society
(250) 339-4370

2000 Steps

Even people in the city can improve their natural lands! Vancouver's inner city will create rooftop gardens to provide a place for plants to live and people to enjoy. People living in apartment buildings will help create their new gardens with the Environmental Youth Alliance and then they will be permanent caretakers.

Vancouver, British Columbia
Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA)
Doug Rogan
(604) 689-4463

Bow Valley Ranch Site in Fish Creek Provincial Park

The Ranch at Fish Creek Park is inside Calgary's main city and will be replanted with indigenous plants and landscapes. They will plant hedgerow, thickets, deciduous and coniferous trees, aspen groves and marshlands. This will provide habitat and food for birds, butterflies and animals.

Calgary, Alberta
The Ranch at Fish Creek Restoration Society
Mitzie Wasyliw
(403) 269-3632

Lethbridge Millennium Rock Garden Project

The Lethbridge Public Library's volunteers plans to create a Japanese rock garden for visitors to the library to enjoy. It is also a reminder of the contribution of Japanese Canadians who moved to Alberta during World War II.

Lethbridge, Alberta
Lethbridge Public Library
George Hall
(403) 380-1343

Calgary Green Map

Calgary will make new maps of its land which show locations of organic markets and recycling depots and green spaces. This will help people learn about and use environmental technologies in their city.

Sustainable Calgary
Carolyn Royaly
(403) 270-3474
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/sustcalg/greenmap.html

Do you know about any plant or habitat projects in Saskatchewan? Let us know!

Green Dream

École Robert H. Smith School in Winnipeg is building an outdoor classroom. Students will learn about habitat and biodiversity at school outside! When students help plan and maintain their schoolyards they feel more like members of the school community and enjoy their classes.

Winnipeg, Manitoba
École Robert H. Smith School Environment Committee
Anne Christienson
(204) 488-1137

Choose to Lead Canada!

Starting in Kitchener, Ontario, students will have the opportunity to participate in conferences around southwestern Ontario. They will learn about improving school spirit, the community environment, charity activities, and relationships with seniors. Once they have learned this at the conference, they will take their knowledge back and teach their classmates as they work on their community projects.

Kitchener, Ontario
Choose to Lead Canada
George Hunsberger
(519) 744-6762

Gardens in the Quarry

The Société des jardins retrouvés will renovate a quarry in Beauport near Quebec City. They will plant ground cover, trees, bushes and flowers and will install a pond and flowerbeds. This will be a new place for plants to live and people to visit.

Francois Proulx
(418) 660-4756
Société des Jardins Retrouvés Inc.

The Heritage of the Rivière aux Bleuets

The Comité de mise en valeur du patrimoine écologique et historique de Courcelles, in Quebec, is creating a park at a historic site on the shores of the Rivière aux Bleuets. They will plant a garden that uses Abenaki planting techniques to teach people about sustainable living.

Courcelles, Quebec
Le Comité MAP de Courcelles
Guy Baron
(418) 483-5524

Caraquet Island—A Life-Sized Natural History Book

New Brunswick's Caraquet Island has more than 150 plant species and lots of birds. This new project will add 25 signs, a website and pamphlets to teach people about how important preserving our environment really is.

Mount Stewart and Area Memorial Gardens 2000

The residents of Mount Stewart are renovating an old rail yard into a new park for hiking and recreation. They will plant new plants and trees and install some benches for relaxing and enjoying nature.

Mount Stewart, Prince Edward Island
Community of Mount Stewart
Earl Affleck
(902) 676-2881

Caribou Commons Project

The people of the Yukon have depended on the 160 000 Porcupine caribou for thousands of years, but in the last hundred years the caribou have been threatened by the oil and gas industry. This project's goal is to protect and preserve the caribou habitat by touring a multimedia education presentation to teach Canadians and Americans about conserving the caribou.

Whitehorse, Yukon
Friends of Yukon Rivers
Ken Madsen
(867) 668-7370

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