Protecting, managing and restoring coastal ecosystems in Canada
WWF-Canada is supporting efforts across Canada to monitor, protect, restore and manage coastal blue carbon ecosystems.
Check out some of these projects below:
WWF’s Nature and Climate Grant Program is supporting blue carbon restoration work in British Columbia. Project Watershed and K’ómoks First Nation are restoring tidal marshes and riparian forest on a former sawmill site in the heart of the Comox Valley, on the east coast of Vancouver Island, BC.
Peninsula Streams & Shorelines, SeaChange Marine Conservation Society and Tseycum Marine Stewardship are working to restore salt marsh at an estuary that is sediment starved and eroding due to upland development and increased storm surges.
Through partnerships with Miawpukek First Nation in Conne River, Newfoundland, and the Omushkego First Nations and Mushkegowuk Council, Hudson James Bay Lowlands, WWF-Canada is supporting salt marsh and eelgrass monitoring and restoration work within their territories. This work not only contributes to blue carbon and climate resistance goals, but also to the development of Indigenous Marine Protected Areas in Miawpukek First Nation’s territory and the proposed National Marine Conservation Area in western James Bay and southwestern Hudson Bay.
Working with Maaqutusiis Hahoulthee Stewardship Society and Arc of the Coast, WWF-Canada is supporting research around social license for regenerative ocean farming and the implementation of Indigenous-led pilot seaweed farms. The learnings will be used to assist other projects and plan for future work.
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