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Green Ontario is a gateway site to Ontario's conservation and environmental movement.
 

 
The Conservation Council
The Conservation Council of Ontario is a province-wide association of organizations and individuals dedicated to conservation and a healthy environment.
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1.  Building a Conservation Movement
The CCO has produced several reports and strategy papers related to building a stronger conservation movement. The more recent ones relate to the We Conserve initiative, which is taking these recommendations and putting them into practice.

 

We Conserve: Progress Report #1 (November, 2005)
This report reviews our early successes in building a stronger conservation movement, and outlines an ambitious five year agenda.

We Conserve (July 2005)
We Conserve is the challenge paper that lays out the framework for a new united conservation movement in Ontario.  It was supported by an online consultation process at www.weconserve.ca

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Ontario's Conservation Summit 2005: Challenge Paper
This paper is a who-does-what listing of NGO conservation programs.  The content of this report has been incorporated into our background pages in the We Conserve section of this website.

Greening Ontario: A Strategy for Revitalizing the Conservation Movement
(June 2003)
   
This strategy paper outlined an approach for building a stronger non-governmental conservation movement. It was prepared following an Eco Summit in 2002 and preceded the blackout of August 14, 2003 that put conservation back on the map in Ontario.

 

2.  Missing Values
In the late 1990's, the CCO initiated a series of reports that analyzed and compared the commitments of Ministry Business Plans with their Statements of Environmental Values.  The reports highlighted weaknesses in the government's ability to integrate environmental values into its annual planning and priorities.

Missing Values 2001: Full Report   Executive Summary

Missing Values 2000: Full Report   Media Statement

Missing Values:  Full Report (pdf)  Executive Summary (pdf)  Media Release