The Nature Conservancy of Canada has announced it has set aside 10 new areas to protect natural habitat for species at risk.That includes one gifted area in each province, covering a total area of 13 sq. kilometres.It is the ninth annual Gifts to Canadians and is marked by regional events to celebrate Canada’s biodiversity from coast to coast.The NCC is Canada’s leading national land conservation organization.Since 1962, NCC and its partners have helped to conserve more than two million acres of ecologically significant land nationwide.NCC gifts in the Prairies are:* Manitoba: Whitemouth River watershed. Two properties were bought, protecting wetlands, forests and peat lands near the Whitemouth River, east of Winnipeg. Species protected include gray wolf, owls and eagles, along with white-tailed deer and grouse.* Saskatchewan: Native grasslands west of Saskatoon and northeast of Regina have been purchased. The Asquith property near Saskatoon consists of grassland and woodlands, home to a variety of mammals and birds. The Big Valley properties are adjacent to a wildlife management unit used by migratory birds.* Alberta: Kelly Ranches, Red Deer county, features forests, shrub land and wetlands. It’s home to mule deer, coyote, moose and American badgers and is used as a breeding habitat for waterfowl.Other land ranges from salt marshes and a rare songbird haven in Newfoundland to a 62 acre woodland in Prince Edward Island, home to 150-year-old trees and a wide variety of plants and birds, to land in Essex County, southwestern Ontario, which has a higher diversity of plant and animal life than any region of the country.
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