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By Natasha Bulowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Nearly $90 million in federal funding for a slew of nature conservation projects intended to reverse Canada\u2019s biodiversity loss and protect more land and waters was announced Thursday. The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society\u2019s British Columbia Chapter (CPAWS) celebrated the federal government\u2019s news, which advances Canada\u2019s goal to improve biodiversity and protect thirty per cent of lands and waters by 2030. Three separate projects totalling $49 million will be in British Columbia, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced at a press conference in Whytecliff Park Beach in West Vancouver. \u201cThis funding has the potential to make a massive impact by protecting ecologically and culturally important ecosystems that hold and sequester carbon while benefitting clean water, air and wildlife,\u201d said Tori Ball, conservation director… <\/p>\n

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By Natasha Bulowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Nearly $90 million in federal funding for a slew of nature conservation projects intended to reverse Canada\u2019s biodiversity loss and protect more land and waters was announced Thursday. The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society\u2019s British Columbia Chapter (CPAWS) celebrated the federal government\u2019s news, which advances Canada\u2019s goal to improve biodiversity and protect thirty per cent of lands and waters by 2030. Three separate projects totalling $49 million will be in British Columbia, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced at a press conference in Whytecliff Park Beach in West Vancouver. \u201cThis funding has the potential to make a massive impact by protecting ecologically and culturally important ecosystems that hold and sequester carbon while benefitting clean water, air and wildlife,\u201d said Tori Ball, conservation director... <\/p>\n

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