Opinion: We were frequently assured that Greenbelt Lands were inviolate, but now we see they are seen as “holding lands” to be purchased cheap and traded off to developers who cut the right deal.
In the last few decades there have been various attempts to set aside, or protect, the last vestiges of the functioning ecological landscape in the face of relentless demand for land to facilitate the sprawl of residential and commercial development driven by ceaseless economic growth.
Such changes are the “end game” for natural heritage conservation in southern Ontario. There will be no way to protect any land for the onslaught. The mechanisms of placing private land of natural heritage importance under the protection of municipal planning restrictions have become complete failures.
3. To facilitate scientific research and to provide points of reference to support monitoring of ecological change on the broader landscape.
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