Environment committee  The result area related to biodiversity of wildlife and habitat is an increase in the department's budget. The $46 million that is part of the five-year funding of $252 million in fact is new money for enhanced outcomes in that result area. The only question that remains outsta

Environment committee  That's from the departmental perspective. Within the department, there are increases for certain—

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  No. For example, if one were thinking about wetland restoration, the national wetland conservation fund, it would be restoring the habitat capacity of those wetlands.

Environment committee  Yes. Moose and deer, for example, would prefer early successional habitat, as distinct from caribou.

Environment committee  Yes, that's correct, and it speaks to the importance of scale that I drew attention to earlier. If there are, say, forestry operations here, is habitat being restored some place else in, say, that boreal caribou range?

Environment committee  Boreal caribou and woodland caribou in general have a fundamentally different predator aversion strategy compared to moose and deer.

Environment committee  Yes, that's correct in the context of one of the local populations that Alberta is actively managing. They were able to demonstrate an increase in the population of caribou through that particular population management technique.

Environment committee  Yes, I think that our management tools and techniques need to recognize a broad suite of tools. Habitat will always be fundamentally important where we have populations that have had too much impact on their habitat and their populations are declining. As the boreal caribou recov

Environment committee  The program is designed to acquire what is referred to as a full or partial interest in the land. A full interest is purchase of the land itself, called fee-simple title. In other situations the land remains in private ownership. For example, for a rancher in prairie Canada who h

Environment committee  Thank you. Good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you again this morning. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today about private sector partnerships with not-for-profit organizations to undertake local environmental initiatives. My comments today will focus on wi

Environment committee  Thank you. The eco-action program operates in the very same fashion as the programs I mentioned, which you just reiterated, the habitat stewardship program, and so on. Funding is encouraged through leverage. For example, the recipient, the non-government organization receiving

Environment committee  That's correct. In the programs that I mentioned, we operate at 50%, except for the aboriginal fund for species at risk. The reason for that is sometimes aboriginal organizations or communities don't have the wherewithal to provide that kind of financial assistance, so the in-kin

Environment committee  For the Earth Rangers contribution agreement, it's a $3 million—

Environment committee  My apologies, I misunderstood the question. The national conservation plan is a $252 million five-year investment. Of that, $100 million went to the natural areas conservation program. The primary recipient is the Nature Conservancy of Canada, although they partner with other n