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Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is a Canadian non-profit environmental organization that works to conserve, create, restore and manage Canadian wetlands and associated uplands in order to provide healthy ecosystems that support North American waterfowl, other wildlife and people. [1]
Ducks Unlimited Canada is the partner management and conservation company with the Government of British Columbia. [2] They actively support Indigenous-led conservation planning across Canada. [11] This company creates wetland maps that are woven together using datasets that create large-scale, detailed maps of marsh, fen, bog, swamp and water.
The Quebec component of the program involves a partnership between Ducks Unlimited Canada, Nature Conservancy of Canada, the Fondation de la faune du Québec, the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs, the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune, and the Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment Canada.
Nature Canada traces its roots back to September 30, 1939, when Reginald Whittemore launched the magazine Canadian Nature in honour of his late wife, Mabel Frances Whittemore. The organization claims this makes Nature Canada the oldest national nature conservation charity in Canada, however Ducks Unlimited Canada was founded two years earlier ...
Local Winnipeg artist Ernie Wilson created the original Ducks Unlimited logo. [3] More Game Birds in America was then absorbed by the new waterfowl organization. [4] [5] [6] Ducks Unlimited Canada was incorporated in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on March 10, 1937. [7] As of 2020, Ducks Unlimited Canada has a conservation community of 111,025 people. [8]
Wetlands can be found in Canada's broad ranges of ecozones spanning across the provinces and territories. In Canada, there is approximately 1.29 million km 2 of wetlands which in turn covers 13% of Canada's terrestrial area. [5] Canadian wetlands are predominantly located within the Boreal Shield which accounts for 25% of the existing wetland ...
The Shubenacadie Wildlife Park is home to the Greenwing Legacy Centre, a collaboration project between Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry. The centre offers educational programming and interactive activities such as bird-watching, as well as a gift shop, and it maintains and operates the St. Andrew's ...
Tantramar Regional High School is home to the Tantramar Wetlands Centre, a program that aims to provide outdoor education for students. The Tantramar Wetlands Centre was founded in 1998, by Ducks Unlimited Canada, the Canadian Wildlife Service, New Brunswick's Department of Natural Resources, the Town of Sackville and the School District, who ...