Yes, certainly.
One program I would draw the committee's attention to is a program we share with the United States and Mexico: the North American waterfowl management plan. It started in 1986. To date, in Canada alone, there are nearly 21 million acres of habitat that have been secured and in fact enhanced and improved. There are nearly 108 million acres of habitat that have been influenced. The overall investment, much of which has come from the United States, is just over $1.8 billion since 1986 in this partnership-based program, with $900 million coming from the United States.
It's a partnership-based program, which often is viewed as the way a conservation program should work. It engages not only the conservation community, but also, and in particular, the agricultural sector. The program has expanded into the western boreal as well, so there's an awful lot of partnership-based work happening now with the forest sector.
With respect to the habitat stewardship program Mr. Keenan just alluded to, it has been in existence since 2000. To date, we have over 2,000 projects that have been implemented, with legally binding habitat conservation of about 160,000 hectares. With respect to habitat improvement and one of the restoration questions, on average over the life of the program, about 30,000 hectares of habitat have been improved, and about 725 kilometres of stream-ways have been improved each year since the start of that program.
So those two programs are very significant with respect to the national conservation plan.