{"id":26220,"date":"2024-04-22T22:50:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T22:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26220"},"modified":"2024-04-22T22:50:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T22:50:16","slug":"largest-conservation-agreement-in-canadian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26220","title":{"rendered":"largest conservation agreement in Canadian history&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-4.jpg 533w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-4-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 85vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>click link for article<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/news\/local-news\/largest-nature-conservation-agreement-canadian-history\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/news\/local-news\/largest-nature-conservation-agreement-canadian-history\">https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/news\/local-news\/largest-nature-conservation-agreement-canadian-history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-2-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-2-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"articleTitle\">Nature Conservancy of Canada announces funds all raised for largest conservation agreement in Canadian history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It&#8217;s the largest such conservation agreement in Canadian history, covering 22,000 hectares of grasslands and wetland habitats in Sourthern Alberta<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calgary Herald:  Author of the article:Stephen Tipper Published Apr 22, 2024&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The land features abundant wildlife, including elk, deer and even grizzly bear, as well as birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish. Recent wildlife surveys have revealed 27 species of concern living there, including ferruginous hawk (threatened), chestnut-collared longspur (threatened) and American badger (special concern).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we want bears and eagles and coyotes and deer, guess what? We\u2019ve got to save some of the habitat in which they live,\u201d said Ralph Thrall, whose family has owned the property for 76 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outlining the importance of grasslands, Lynch-Staunton said they provide habitat for pollinators, filter water, and store and sequester carbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen those grasslands remain intact, we are keeping carbon in the ground and pulling carbon from the atmosphere into the ground through those biodiverse plants that draw that CO2 into the soil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCC\u2019s goal is to protect 500,000 hectares of native prairie grasslands by 2030, and the McIntyre Ranch is the largest agreement completed under its Prairie Grasslands Action Plan, which launched last summer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Court-Painter-conservation-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click link for article Nature Conservancy of Canada announces funds all raised for largest conservation agreement in Canadian history It&#8217;s the largest such conservation agreement in Canadian history, covering 22,000 hectares of grasslands and wetland habitats in Sourthern Alberta Calgary Herald: Author of the article:Stephen Tipper Published Apr 22, 2024&nbsp; The land features abundant wildlife, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;largest conservation agreement in Canadian history&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26220"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26232,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220\/revisions\/26232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}