- • Heritage Pays
- • Heritage Tourism
- • Heritage Conservation Saves Energy
- • Introduction
- • Recycle That House
- • Go Green
- • Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Community Development
- • Urban Ecology and Heritage Preservation
- • Heritage Workforce
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In the last 30 years Canada has lost 21 to 23% of pre-1920 building stock to demolition.
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Urban Ecology and Heritage Preservation - What's the Connection?
Today, almost 80% of Canadians live in urban communities.
Conserving natural ecosystems in cities and towns is vital
to our well-being. That’s where urban ecology comes
in.
Urban ecology involves improving existing parks and landscapes,
creating and maintaining migration corridors and ecosystems
for wildlife, restoring native plant and animal life and
returning polluted former industrial sites to health.
Sustainable development means living on renewable resources
and recycling non-renewable ones. Neighbourhoods of older
houses usually have mature trees, landscaping and gardens.
Destruction of older neighbourhoods results in the loss
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What Can You Do?
- • Heritage organizations can query municipal governments about tree
inventory and tree protection policies. If none exist, push for
their development.
- • Heritage organizations could invite a horticulturalist, arborist
or nature specialist to give a presentation on urban ecology.
BE AN ADVOCATE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION! |
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Resources:
- • Waterfront Regeneration Trust. The Waterfront Trail. Toronto,
1995. ISBN: 0-7778-4082-0.
- • John Marsh and Janet Fialkowski, eds. Linking Cultural and Natural
Heritage, Peterborough: Trent University, 1995. ISBN: 0-9693790-4-8.
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