Southern Ontario, once home to a thriving monarch butterfly population, is the flagship of habitat fragmentation; the GTA West Highway will only make it worse

There are more roads in a single square kilometre in Southern Ontario than in any other part of Canada. It means the natural world is slashed, paved over and divided, leaving very few corridors for wildlife to migrate, search for food or suitable places to breed. 

Habitat fragmentation is a leading cause of species decline, and now the Ontario government wants to build a 400-series highway along the edge of the Greenbelt, compromising the homes of countless animals, and the province’s fight against climate change.

Published in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga September 25, 2021