The Niagara Land Trust
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The Niagara Land Trust (NLT) was incorporated in 2008. Our geographic area of focus includes the Niagara Peninsula and its contingent watersheds.
Our objective is to protect lands and waters of ecological, agricultural, cultural value through a variety of mechanisms. These include - but are not restricted to - land acquisition, conservation agreements, landscape restoration and education.
NLT has a special responsibility as our mandate includes one of the most diverse and endangered ecosystems in the country, the Carolinian life zone. This unique landscape - which extends south of a line running from Grand Bend to Toronto - contains 25% of Canada's population but less than one percent of its land area. It is the most ecologically diverse landscape in the province and its most threatened. Combined with the fact that many of its species are near the northern limit of their distribution, the Carolinian life zone has the greatest number and concentration of species at risk in Canada. Much of this land is under private ownership. NLT aims to play a pivotal role in conserving and restoring this diverse landscape.
