How 0.1% of Ontario’s budget could trigger a province-wide environmental restoration

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Conservation experts and environmental advocates are manufacturing mini miracles across Ontario using small doses of funding doled out by the provincial government. 

These projects create a bulwark against a biodiversity crisis that is threatening the vast majority of the world’s species with extinction. If elected officials decided to dedicate just a minuscule amount of increased annual funding to conservation efforts the outcomes could be remarkable. 

First published in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga on September 4, 2022