Photo by Jan Strudwick, photo contest submission.

Manitoba’s wetlands and the fight against climate change received a boost when the provincial government revealed its Made-in-Manitoba Climate and Green Plan, which creates a plan to preserve and restore wetland habitats.

The plan which was proposed back in October, would try and stop the loss of wetlands in Manitoba.

On average four-and-a-half football fields, a day are drained for farming.

This habitat is great for the environment, it keeps as much as 27.9 billion tonnes of carbon out of the atmosphere, “an amount equivalent to more than a century of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions,” said Ducks Unlimited Canada’s Scott Stephens.

“If these wetlands are drained or destroyed, that carbon will be released into the atmosphere and deliver a devastating blow to the environment. That’s why conserving and keeping them intact is so important.”

Read more about the Manitoban government’s plan to protect their wetlands and the environment in Canadian Wildlife magazine, Jan + Feb 2018 edition. Article originally published in print, « Conservation – New wetlands plan in Manitoba. »

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