Photo: Pat Kane
Announcing Recent Metcalf Environment Funding Commitments
2023

We are pleased to announce the latest funding commitments from our Environment program. It is an honour for us to support this important work.

 

$450,000 over three years in partnership with Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn (MTI) and Nature Trust New Brunswick to help build the capacity of Keki’namuanen Msit Wen Wlo’tmnen Nmaqami’kminu Inc. (KMWWN), an Indigenous-led land trust.

$328,650 over three years to support a joint project enabling both Indigenous and non-Indigenous forest-dependent communities to take concrete steps toward land-based reconciliation and land back efforts in the Wabanaki forest.

$280,000 over two years to support First Nations in their development of capacity to engage on carbon conservation work in Ontario.

$75,000 over two years to support early-stage capacity building, research, and analysis regarding the feasibility of the Mary Hill Indigenous Protected Area.

$200,000 over two years to support the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership, housed at the University of Guelph, to explore economic pathways for Indigenous-led conservation.

$250,000 over two years to support the development of an Omushkego Regional Conservation Strategy on Land Use and Climate Change.

$300,000 over three years to help expand The Narwhal’s coverage of Indigenous-led conservation.

$50,000 over two years for Organizing for Change, a MakeWay project, to continue shared strategy work on old growth forests and protected areas in BC.

$300,000 over three years to launch a national hub on conservation finance.

$138,368 over one year to assess the broad range of economic values of old growth forests in BC.

$68,400 over one year to support convening and research related to conservation strategies in Canada.

$150,000 over two years for terrestrial conservation work in Ontario.

$200,000 over two years for continued support of the Public Voice Fund.