Trans Canada Trail partners with Environment Canada in promoting International Year of Biodiversity
Trans Canada Trail is proud to partner with Environment Canada in promoting’s International Year of Biodiversity 2010 (IYB) to bring attention to the richness of our natural world that can be explored along the Trans Canada Trail.
Whether you are visiting the Trail in the wilderness or in a city park, look around and appreciate the diversity of life that surrounds you.
Join people around the world to safeguard our natural resources
The United Nations proclaimed 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity, and people all over the world are working to safeguard our irreplaceable natural wealth and reduce biodiversity loss. This is vital for current and future human wellbeing.
We are all an integral part of nature; our fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals and plants, the places they live and their surrounding environments, all over the world.
We rely on this diversity of life to provide us with the food, fuel, medicine and other essentials we simply cannot live without. Yet this rich diversity is being lost at a greatly accelerated rate because of human activities. This impoverishes us all and weakens the ability of the living systems, on which we depend, to resist growing threats such as climate change.
Now is the time to act
The International Year of Biodiversity is a unique opportunity to increase understanding of the vital role that biodiversity plays in sustaining life on Earth.
The Trail will be working with Envvironment Canada on several joint initiatives in the year ahead. A “Biokit” will be developed to guide your biodiversity journey on the Trail. Watch for video clips of the Trail in the Hinterland Who’s Who biodiversity series!
To learn more about the importance of protecting biodiversity, click here or visit the UN International Year of Biodiversity site.
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