Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  We could get you a number. Typically, a private landowner is a little more reticent to go into permanent long-term protection.

Environment committee  I think the most obvious way to do that would be to look at the way in which wetlands retain water on the Canadian landscape. There's been an awful lot of wetland loss in areas that are certainly susceptible and prone to flooding. We have a recommendation n the current year's Gre

Environment committee  In the case of wetlands, for example, we are often installing plate-steel fabricated water-control structures, so we have to buy those on the commercial market. We have to install them, and we have to hire people to install them. Ducks Unlimited generally works in a supervisory,

Environment committee  Definitely. We have an in-house geographic information systems group that does wetland mapping right across the country. We have generated polygon-based maps of where wetlands are in Canada. We have a pretty good idea in certain regions of the country where those habitats lie.

Environment committee  Generally speaking it is. Through the North American waterfowl management plan, we have agreements with landowners and with the crown to protect and restore our wetlands across the continent, and we share data and information.

Environment committee  Yes. We can do that.

Environment committee  Active management, for us, is generally focused on building a strong plan for a protected area. Perhaps Mark could speak to some of the work that we have done.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mark. The second recommendation we would like to make is related to the way in which certain areas are accounted for in the current protected area inventory. We have secured long-term protection on over 500,000 acres via fee-simple purchase or permanent conservation

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee, for inviting Ducks Unlimited Canada to contribute to the committee's study on federal protected areas and conservation objectives. Ducks Unlimited Canada is very happy to be here today in its role as the leader in wetland cons

Environment committee  Certainly, interfering with legitimate hunting activities is not permitted under the law. I know that in the province of Ontario it is not permitted under law right now. Cam may have more insight into that than I have. I'm not personally aware of any drone activity interfering

Environment committee  We haven't heard anything from our membership about it.

Environment committee  The important thing to look at is the model, and I think the partnership model is one that works. If you look at the North American waterfowl management plan and the partnerships it brings to the table in terms of leveraging money from different interested parties into the land

Environment committee  The vast majority of our work has been with private landowners since our inception in 1938. The simple fact of the matter is that among the most valuable waterfowl habitat, much is in the settled landscapes of southern Canada, which is largely in private hands. Typically the way

Environment committee  Sure, I'll take a stab at that. I think that, as I mentioned before, climate is certainly having an impact on how we manage projects in the settled landscapes. In the boreal, there's a whole host of changes that we're trying to monitor, that scientists and the government are tr