The Township of Selwyn is one in all 4 municipalities which have been newly licensed as “bird friendly” underneath Nature Canada’s Bird Friendly City program.
Along with Selwyn Township, Richmond Hill in Ontario, Devon in Alberta, and Hudson in Quebec are the brand new municipalities which have acquired the certification. Selwyn Township joins Peterborough within the Kawarthas area as two of the 24 municipalities throughout Canada which can be licensed as being chook pleasant.
Nature Canada grants the certification to municipalities which have met or exceeded a minimal customary in three classes: decreasing threats to birds of their municipality, defending and restoring pure habitat and growing local weather resiliency, and actively participating their group in these actions by means of training and outreach. Each municipality acquired a certification stage of entry, intermediate, or excessive relying on their lowest rating in any of the three classes.
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“The communities that make up the Township of Selwyn are proud to receive a Bird Friendly City Certificate through Nature Canada’s certification program,” says Selwyn Township Mayor Sherry Senis in a media launch. “The township has increasingly made strong efforts towards becoming more sustainable by introducing new programs to our residents and taking on various corporate projects that will make positive leeway towards fighting climate change.”
“From the introduction of countertop composters to the installation of EV chargers and becoming a certified Bee Friendly Community, this Bird Friendly City Certification is another step towards becoming a greener community. As a township, we would like to express our appreciation to Nature Canada for supporting communities like ours to become a more
welcoming, safe haven for birds.”
To grow to be licensed, nature teams, municipal officers, and different group teams work with Nature Canada, one of many oldest nationwide nature conservation charities in Canada that represents a community of over 130,000 members and supporters and greater than 1,000 nature organizations.
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Like most of the 24 municipalities which have acquired the Nature Canada certification, Selwyn Township has been licensed on the entry stage.
“Our work is not over by any means now that we have achieved this first goal — we have lots more we want to accomplish,” writes Carly Davenport on the Bird Friendly Selwyn website. “Priorities like increasing tree canopy in our parks, creating connected greenspaces, reducing plastic pollution from our waterways and wetlands, promoting accessible birding locations, promoting community science, educating on the threats that birds face in our community, and ultimately ensuring that as we continue to grow as a community we do so in ways that do not have a negative impact on our local biodiversity.”
The City of Kawartha Lakes might quickly be the third chook pleasant metropolis within the Kawarthas. At its October twenty fourth assembly, metropolis council supported a decision for the Bird Friendly Kawartha Lakes crew to submit a certification software to Nature Canada.
