{"id":931930,"date":"2026-10-13T21:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931930\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:36:23","slug":"swath-of-ontario-boreal-forest-larger-than-toronto-to-be-protected-from-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931930\/","title":{"rendered":"Swath of Ontario boreal forest larger than Toronto to be protected from development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chunk of Ontario\u2019s northern boreal forest bigger than Toronto is set to be protected from industrial development.<\/p>\n<p>The Nature Conservancy of Canada says it has acquired 814 square kilometres of boreal forest and peatlands south of Kapuskasing, previously owned by a company selling carbon offset credits.<\/p>\n<p>The non-profit says where the landscape is healthy and free of vulnerable species, some day-use recreational activities such as hiking and paddling may continue, in line with provincial laws.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government says it\u2019s contributing $13 million to the project as part of a total $64-million investment from both public and private donors.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes ahead of next week\u2019s annual United Nations biodiversity summit, where the talks are expected to focus on global progress toward conservation goals.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa unveiled a new $3.8-billion nature protection strategy earlier this year intended to put Canada\u2019s goals within reach, months after the federal environmental watchdog found it to be more than one-million square kilometres short of its 2025 goal to protect 25 per cent of its lands and inland water.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Omstead, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chunk of Ontario\u2019s northern boreal forest bigger than Toronto is set to be protected from industrial development.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-931930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}