June 13 - Canada Egypt Business Council

Canada in the Spotlight
Government of Canada Celebrates Canada’s 1000 th Ecogift
in Manitoba
Candice Bergen, Member of Parliament for Portage—Lisgar, on
behalf of Canada’s Environment Minister, the Honourable Peter
Kent, celebrated Canada’s 1000 th Ecogift south of Austin,
Manitoba. This Ecogift consists of 59 hectares of prairie grassland
and aspen parkland that is ideal habitat for a large variety
of birds. The land is also in the core range of the endangered
northern prairie skink, Manitoba’s only lizard.
“Over the past 18 years, Canadians have donated over 150,000
hectares of private land valued at approximately $630 million.
With this program, Canadians can take real action to protect and
conserve our country’s ecosystems for present and future generations.
I encourage other land owners to consider the Ecogift Program
as it would be wonderful to protect more land, especially
native prairie lands.”
Since 1995, Canada’s Ecological Gifts Program has encouraged
private landowners to conserve ecologically sensitive land by donating
it to a qualified recipient. Donors not only have the comfort
of knowing that their cherished piece of nature will be cared
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