Canada’s Carney launches C$3.8bn strategy to protect nature

3 April 20263 April 2026By admin

To protect Canada’s lands and waters, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has launched ‘A Force of Nature: Canada’s Strategy to Protect Nature’. With an investment of C$3.8bn, Canada’s new nature strategy will protect and restore critical habitats, ensure industrial strategies complement our conservation efforts, and mobilise new capital for nature.

In 2022, at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montréal, Canada joined 195 other countries in committing to protect 30% of the world’s lands and waters by 2030. To advance this mission, the new strategy will, amongst other things:

Fund up to 14 new marine protected and conserved areas, and at least 10 new national parks and fresh water national marine conservation areas. In addition, the government will fund up to 10 new national marine conservation areas and 15 national urban parks. This will protect at least 1.6m km² of lands in Canada and up to 700,000km² of oceans in Canada over the next four years. This will increase terrestrial conservation from 14% to 30% by 2030 and marine conservation from over 15% to 28%, on the way to 30% by 2030. The government will advance the Wiinipaakw Indigenous Protected Area and National Marine Conservation Area in Eastern James Bay, off Québec.
It will advance the Seal River Watershed National Park Reserve in Manitoba.
It will reinforce Indigenous-led conservation work by investing over $230m to expand the Indigenous Guardians Program to establish a new Arctic Indigenous Guardians Program. This will enable better monitoring, land stewardship, and conservation leadership in Indigenous communities, while creating high-quality careers.
It will support the recovery of wood bison populations along the Alberta-Northwest Territories border through a $90 million investment into the Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site Action Plan.
And it will invest in the Ghost Gear Fund to further remove harmful fishing gear from Canada’s oceans. This will build on the 2,500 tonnes of abandoned fishing gear removed from Canada’s waters since 2020.

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