Restoration and Stewardship
For the Niagara Peninsula Watershed
Take the next step in restoring your land and enhancing environmental sustainability today.
NPCA strives to improve environmental health by working with local landowners and partners to restore and enhance natural features across the Niagara Peninsula watershed jurisdiction.
Our Watershed Restoration and Stewardship program focuses on enhancing biodiversity and improving ecosystem services such as wildlife habitat, climate change resilience, and water quality.
With external funding support from various sources, NPCA offers a cost-share program to fund a portion of eligible project costs.
Project types include:
- Wetland restoration
- Creek restoration - including riparian buffers and aquatic habitat restoration
- Agricultural land restoration - including tree and shrub planting, wetland restoration, and riparian buffers
- Tree planting (with min. size requirement)
Who is Eligible?
Landowners, municipalities and partners within the Niagara Peninsula watershed. Some projects may have minimum size requirements and/or require a 4th edition Environmental Farm Plan completed or in progress to be considered.
All projects will require an agreement signed by the landowner to proceed. This agreement will outline key project details, landowner requirements, and cost implications.
Please see project eligibility guide for more information.
While funding is currently limited, we are looking to build a database of those expressing interest in this initiative.
How to Get Started
Review the project eligibility guide. If you have a project that meets these criteria, fill out the expression of interest form here to have your project(s) considered as funding opportunities become available. For more information, contact a member of the Restoration and Stewardship team at restoration@npca.ca.
Funding Acknowledgement
The NPCA gratefully acknowledges funding support from the following partners: Ducks Unlimited Canada, Tree Canada, Forests Canada, Government of Canada (EcoAction), Province of Ontario (Great Lakes Local Action Fund), Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program, and several local municipal partners.