ONTARIO’S
BIODIVERSITY
STRATEGY

Biodiversity sustains us and enriches our lives — and we need to protect it. That’s why we are delighted to share a summary of the updated Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy.

The full strategy, with more in-depth context, background information, a glossary and references will be released soon. Check back and celebrate with us as we work together to protect what sustains us!

Download the Summary (20 pages)
or Download the full Strategy (53 pages)

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“Protecting the diversity of life on Earth — of which we humans are an integral part — requires broad societal consensus and participation. It is a challenge not for some of us, but for all of us (Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy, 2005).”

Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy, 2023 is our call to action and road map to conserve the genetic, species and ecosystem diversity for this and future generations.

Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy guides conservation across the province. It’s like a to-do list to help all of us take actions that will benefit biodiversity, address our changing climate, improve human health, make our communities safer and stronger, and support our economy.

The vision, mission and goals set the context of what the strategy can accomplish and what we hope the future looks like in Ontario.

Biodiversity is valued, conserved and restored, and people live in harmony within nature.

To take urgent action to halt and reverse biodiversity loss for the benefit of all living things, including people.

  • Empower all people to value, respect and take steps to conserve, recover and sustainably manage biodiversity.
  • Listen to and learn from Indigenous People and pursue reconciliation through biodiversity conservation.
  • Manage biodiversity sustainably in an inclusive and equitable way.
  • Mobilize human and financial resources to scaleup actions to conserve biodiversity.
  • Protect, restore and recover ecosystem, species and genetic diversity and the benefits that biodiversity provides for all living things.

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