Include Wolf Lake in Canada’s 30x30 conservation commitments!

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Wolf Lake, North America’s largest old-growth red pine forest (1600 ha or 4,000 acres) is once again being threatened with mining activity. Located in Greater Sudbury, this ecological treasure has survived acid rain, forest fires, and generations of disturbances. Wolf Lake is filled with red pine trees that are over 300 years old!

Mining exploration activity is damaging Wolf Lake old-growth red pine forest. We need your help to protect Wolf Lake.

Include Wolf Lake in Canada’s 30x30 Conservation Commitments!

Red pine only grows naturally in North America and its range has ...

More at: earthroots.org/forests

Wolf Lake, North America’s largest old-growth red pine forest (1600 ha or 4,000 acres) is once again being threatened with mining activity. Located in Greater Sudbury, this ecological treasure has survived acid rain, forest fires, and generations of disturbances. Wolf Lake is filled with red pine trees that are over 300 years old!

Mining exploration activity is damaging Wolf Lake old-growth red pine forest. We need your help to protect Wolf Lake.

Include Wolf Lake in Canada’s 30x30 Conservation Commitments!

Red pine only grows naturally in North America and its range has gradually been reduced by logging, development and mining extraction and exploration – which is still going on to this day. There is too little of this natural beauty left. We cannot afford to lose more of it.

Fueled by the climate crisis, Canada is experiencing its worst and most destructive forest fire season ever. This makes it even more important to protect old-growth forests like Wolf Lake's old-growth red pine forests, which are especially resilient to wildfires.

The global community and Canada have committed to conserving 30% of land and water by 2030 to address the biodiversity crisis. Join the call for Wolf Lake old growth red pine forest to be protected as a small but very important part of Canada’s 30%. We must push our governments to make good on these lapsed promises of protection and tell them to include Wolf Lake in the 30x30 movement!

We Need Your Help

Please send this letter to our government representatives. Ask them to do their jobs and protect Wolf Lake by including it in the commitment to protect 30% of land and water by 2030.

We encourage you to also reach out share a personal letter or your own Wolf Lake stories or photos in addition to this letter. A personal letter makes an even bigger difference!

Send your letter to:

- Environment and Climate Change Minister, Steven Guilbeault (st[email protected]), Energy and Natural Resources Minister, Jonathan Wilkinson (j[email protected]) CC: MP’s Viviane Lapointe ([email protected]), Marc Serré ([email protected]), Ontario Minister of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks, David Piccini ([email protected]), Minister of Mines, George Pirie ([email protected]), Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, Graydon Smith ([email protected]), Mayor of Greater Sudbury, Paul Lefebvre ([email protected])

Images: Rob Nelson Photography

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Include Wolf Lake in Canada’s 30x30 conservation commitments!

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I am writing to ask you to include Wolf Lake old-growth forest in Canada’s commitment to protect 30% of lands and water by 2030.

Wolf Lake is the largest old-growth red pine forest in North America and the world. This area is a natural gem of Ontario's north, drawing people from around the world to paddle and camp. Less than 1.2% of this unique, endangered ecosystem remains. It must be protected.

Protecting Wolf Lake's 1600 hectare old-growth red pine forest would be a prime candidate to help meet Canada’s targets for 30 x 30, and for climate nature based-climate solutions.

In 2023, we have many ways of protecting an ecosystem including Indigenous led conservation areas and through our parks systems.

As a forest reserve, Wolf Lake is a ‘park in waiting’ and its ecological and recreational values must be honoured and protected. The protection of Wolf Lake has been promised by the Ontario government since 1999.

Mining exploration activity during recent winters have negatively impacted this fragile ecosystem, and more activity is planned. Every new impact erodes Wolf Lake’s ecological health and beauty.

I urge you to take immediate steps to protect this sensitive and unique old-growth red pine forest. Please take all possible actions to minimize the damage from current mining exploration activity, and insist on actions to restore and assist recovery of damage already done. A plan for permanent protection of Wolf Lake old-growth forest is needed without delay. The health of old-growth forests affects all of Ontario and Canada. With the intensifying effects of climate change, including destructive wildfires, it is more important than ever to protect old-growth forests like Wolf Lake.

I look forward to hearing from you promptly about your plans to conserve this special and irreplaceable place.

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