IN THE NEWS
IN THE NEWS
Media coverage of Ontario Streams over the years...
Tree Canada Awards Ontario Streams with
Treemendous Communities Grant
May 31, 2023 - Tree Canada is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to planting and
nurturing trees in urban and rural areas. In 2023, they partnered with TC Energy to provide
funding for supporting community tree planting initiatives. The Treemendous Communities grant
invested $10,000 in Ontario Streams’ Fletcher’s Creek Riparian Habitat Regeneration Project to
promote environmental stewardship in the Brampton community.
Supporting Local Salamanders
March 26, 2022 - Ontario Streams was awarded a $81,807 grant through Ontario's Species at Risk Stewardship Program for a Jefferson salamander habitat project. This funding will support the installation of a new eco-passage to protect amphibians during their migration and the rehabilitation of a minimum of five breeding ponds.
Coalition for the West Credit
February 6, 2022 - Our Partnership Specialist Mark Heaton has been busy advocating for the Brook Trout in the West Credit River. The West Credit River and the Brook Trout are currently threatened by plans for a wastewater treatment plant in the Town of Erin which will release effluent into the stream. On January 27th, he led a presentation at Peel Region Council to share the importance of Brook Trout as an indicator species that demonstrate decreased water quality for both wildlife and humans. The council voted in favour of writing a letter to the Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks to consider environmental mitigation efforts. In addition, the council will be requesting that Credit Valley Conservation installs monitoring equipment along the affected stream. Following this meeting, local news organizations covered the story and promoted the cause and both the article and presentation can be viewed at the links below:
Click here to read the article in Mississauga.com!
Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant
May 21, 2021 - The Ontario Trillium Foundation Resilient Communities Fund awarded Ontario Streams with $70,100 to boost community outreach and stewardship. Ontario Streams is using its OTF grant to hire and Outreach Coordinator to build new educational programs to connect community members with their local environment, as well as adapt current programming into virtual platforms in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. OTF funding has also enabled Ontario Streams to extend contracts for its seasonal staff to increase capacity for on-the-ground habitat restoration work.
Leo's Fishheads by TVO Kids!
April 23, 2020 - FishHeads is a kids' adventure science series that explores what is going on under the waves and around the shorelines as our hosts discover the aquatic world of Ontario, the rest of Canada and beyond - getting to know these amazing Eco-systems and the beings that call them home.
City of Richmond Hill - Our community planted 200,000 Trees!
Great Lakes Guardian Community Fund
TVO - For the love of salmon
CTV News Barrie - Fisheries Sampling at Scales Nature Park
Powerstream - A Greener York
2011 - Ontario Streams General Manager Doug Forder explains the purpose of our habitat enhancement work, as well as the specific methods we implement throughout the watershed including both stream and wetland restoration work. This video provides valuable information on how stream health impacts both the natural environment, and us, and focuses on anthropogenic effects as the leading cause in the degradation of the Lake Ontario watershed.