An excerpt from an article in the Ottawa Citizen called:
More than just black flies, bogs, rocks and trees
By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola, Citizen Special
“But in the midst of the monumental landscapes that will forever be wild, one story that really inspires us is that of Canada’s most unusual new park. This year the city of Guelph established the world’s first pollinator sanctuary on a former landfill site on the edge of town. Heaps of rotting garbage within a sarcophagus of soil and clay are being restored with native vegetation to create much needed urban habitat for perhaps the hardest-working species on the planet: insect pollinators. Many of these critters are declining throughout Canada as a result of sprawl, pesticides, global warming and intensive agricultural activities. Their decline is worrisome, as about 90 per cent of flowering plants, including at least one-third of the food we eat, need pollinators, including apples, blueberries, carrots, broccoli and many other fruits and vegetables, as well as many seeds and grains too.”
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