© Marc Sardi / WWF-Canada lavender growing in an urban garden

BIOPOLIS PROJECTS

Explore Biopolis projects and discover how citizens, researchers, institutions, businesses and community organizations are supporting biodiversity in cities across Southern Québec.

Explore Biodiversity Projects

The projects listed on Biopolis are diverse and a source of inspiration for all. They were selected according to their objectives to enhance and preserve urban biodiversity in cities across Southern Québec. Explore our featured projects to discover how citizens, researchers, institutions, businesses and community organizations are working to support urban biodiversity.

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    Alvéole App

    Alvéole App

    The Alvéole App, designed for the modern urban beekeeper, allows you to locate all of our urban beehives and to see how far each bee can fly.

    Thanks to a 200 000-tree database produced by the city of Montreal, a few clicks allow you to visualize what kind of honey you can expect from a beehive in your neighbourhood.

    Alvéole is first and foremost a labor of love, launched in 2012 by three friends from Montreal: Alex, Declan and Étienne. Having spent many years as beekeepers in Manitoba, they have pursued their passion for keeping bees at home, here in Montreal.

    And so Alvéole was born: a unique brand that unites beekeeping, education and community. These days, the team is buzzing with ideas for rallying citizens around bees – leveraging honey towards a better understanding of issues related to the environment and urban greening.

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    A Tree for my Neighbourhood

    A Tree for my Neighbourhood

    A Tree For My Neighbourhood is a campaign initiated by both the Regroupement des éco-quartiers (REQ) and the Société de verdissement du Montréal métropolitain (SOVERDI) encouraging Montreal citizens to plant trees on their property and enjoy their many benefits.

    A Tree For My Neighborhood is part of a city-wide effort to increase the plant cover on the island of Montreal. The initiative is part of the Action Plan for the Urban Forest and 5,500 trees have been planted under the program since 2013.

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    Plan d’action Forêt Urbaine

    Plan d’action Forêt Urbaine

    Plan d’action Forêt Urbaine is a collective tree-planting effort in Montreal dedicated to growing and maintaining a healthy urban forest. While the City of Montreal coordinates efforts on public property, the Montreal non-profit greening company, SOVERDI (Société de verdissement du Montréal métropolitain) and the Urban Forest Alliance (l’Alliance forêt urbaine) coordinate private and institutional efforts.

    Together, they have mobilized Montrealers to plant 300,000 trees over a little more than 10 years, in six major planting networks. These trees will help bring greenery to living spaces, industrial areas, schoolyards, health facilities, shopping centers, parking lots and institutions.

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    Green roof at the Stinson Bus Garage

    Green roof at the Stinson Bus Garage

    Les Toits Vertige is a Montreal company specializing in the design and construction of green roofs. Their mission is to transform the flat roofs of Montreal into urban oases, improving the quality of life for all without affecting urban development.

    The project that has had the greatest impact on biodiversity to date is undoubtedly the green roof of the STM building on Stinson street, located in an industrial area of Ville Saint-Laurent where mineral surfaces are vast and ground vegetation is rare. Completed in 2014, it is one of the largest vegetated roofing projects in Canada, extending over an area of 72,000 ft². The roof canopy is composed of twenty species of plants, namely sedum, which bloom from May to October and attract a host of insect pollinators.

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    10 oasis of biodiversity

    10 oasis of biodiversity

    As part of Earth Day 2016, the Mayor of Saint-Laurent, Alan DeSousa, unveiled 10 biodiversity oasis to be developed throughout the year to highlight 10 years of conservation of the Marcel-Laurin park. These proposed developments include a biodiversity pond, a green rest stop, a monarch butterfly observation station, as well as floral spaces and other oases of biodiversity.

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