CPAWS-BC (Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society) "wants to hear your thoughts on their plans to roll out new national urban parks that will connect Canadians to nature in the city -- A place where we can go to soak up the mental and physical health benefits of spending time in nature, and where pockets of natural areas provide an oasis for urban wildlife and plants".
In these days of frenetic pave-and-build for housing, with municipalities crowding high-rises and multiplexes into every corner of town, we certainly need to "protect more pockets of natural areas (that) provide an oasis for urban wildlife and plants". Let those pockets be deep and wide ... for wildlife and plants, and for human health.
(See https://treewatchvictoria.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-story-in-garden.html )
To speak up for expansion of urban parks in Canada, see the CPAWS survey: (BY MAY 16TH!)
https://action.cpaws.org/page/127577/action/1?ea.url.id=6387724&forwarded=true
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