Our Great Lakes

Healthy Environment, Healthy Communities

Responding to multi-partner consensus on community and ecological priorities

Achieving results through partnerships, community and citizen participation

Making progress on sustainability at the community and ecosystem levels

Achieving Results Through Integration of:

Environment

Economic

Social

federal-provincial program taking action in the Georgia Basin, an international ecosystem encompassing an area of approximately 135 00 km2 including the land and inland seas of the Georgia Strait, Puget Sound, and the Straits of Juan de Fuca
goals set for the improvement of air and water quality, and protection of important habitats and species; stewardship assisted through local capacity-building and the targeted use and application of science and information

partnerships between governments, industry, universities and northern residents in the Peace, Athabasca and Slave River basins
promoting pollution prevention by resource industries
scientific study plays key role

responding to ecosystem and capacity-building needs across Canada's Northincludes the three Territories, the lowlands of Manitoba and Ontario, northern Quebec and Labrador - ecosystems sensitive to change
focus on how contaminants, climate change and development activities are affecting northern communities and the ecosystems on which they depend

addressing the challenge of managing shared waters between Canada and the United States
moving from clean up of past problems to conservation, protection and sustainability
major reductions in target pollutants, restoration of areas of concern, recovery of fish and wildlife populations

now in third phase: focus on ecosystem heath and community involvement by means of a Canada-Quebec Agreement
14 riverside (ZIP) committees along the St. Lawrence, each with an Ecological Rehabilitation Action Plan
shift from reduction of toxic contamination and protection of wildlife and habitat to sustainable navigation, the measure of impacts of water levels variations and a new state of the St. Lawrence program

building sustainable communities
over 800 community action, science, knowledge sharing and capacity-building projects to date
pollution prevention, restored habitats, sewage treatment, artificial wetlands, increased employment