"So what happens to a forestry industry that is depending on spruce trees in that zone?" "It's going to get too warm and too dry to support black spruce in the areas where it's growing right now - that's a climate change consequence," he said. Within 80 years, climate change could render northern Ontario inhospitable to spruce trees. Threats to biodiversity have already taken their toll on the province and the problems it faces are troubling, Miller said.Ĭertain agricultural crops, such as fruits and alfalfa, will fail if bees disappear, he said. Unless Ontario and other provinces take action, Canada's international commitments on biodiversity will be meaningless, he said. But the province is "ill prepared" to meet the challenge. The government can't avoid its obligation to respond to an urgent crisis, Miller said. Ontario adopted a biodiversity strategy in 2005 but it expired last year, and so far the Liberals have not adopted an updated plan. Miller took the government to task for not having a strategy to stem a continuing decline in Ontario's species and natural spaces, which are being threatened by habitat degradation, climate change, invasive species and pollution. We already have a major crisis in our fisheries in the Great Lakes. "We could lose black spruce in northern Ontario. "We could lose sugar maple trees from southern Ontario," Gord Miller, the province's environmental commissioner, said after releasing a new report. That could become a reality within a decade if the governing Liberals don't get their act together to deal with significant threats to biodiversity, Ontario's environment watchdog warned Tuesday. TORONTO - Imagine Ontario without a Canadian icon - the maple leaf.
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