"La restauración ecológica es el proceso de apoyar y ayudar a la recuperación de un ecosistema degradado, dañado o destruido.
La restauración es un elemento clave de la conservación, por lo que es importante que Conservación Halton identifique las oportunidades estratégicas de restauración que proporcionen el mayor beneficio a la función del ecosistema. Por ello, los proyectos de restauración suelen llevarse a cabo en propiedades de Conservation Halton, así como en otras propiedades privadas y públicas, a menudo en colaboración con socios municipales, provinciales y federales, empresas y grupos comunitarios.
Estos proyectos de restauración no sólo embellecen nuestras comunidades y crean oportunidades de recreo, sino que proporcionan un hábitat para las especies silvestres, mejoran las funciones naturales de nuestros entornos y hacen que nuestra cuenca sea más resistente al cambio climático.
Proyectos de restauración
Project Management Services
Conservation Halton has an ecological restoration team with experience providing a range of restoration and conservation project management services to achieve positive outcomes for your project, the environment, and the community.
Some areas of specialty include:
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Our Approach
With over 50 years of experience protecting, restoring, and managing the natural resources in the watershed, and serving the residents of our communities, Conservation Halton maximizes the expertise of our staff and the resources of our partners to ensure efficient and effective outcomes from project development to implementation, to support our core mandate of watershed management. Project management staff, who are trained as restoration ecologists, manage the project from beginning to end. This streamlined approach to planning, implementation, and monitoring helps ensure that there is transparency, accountability, reliability and timeliness.
Planning
Our in-house restoration team is qualified to complete a variety of detailed project designs, but for projects that require stamped engineering drawings, designs are completed through a public procurement process. Conservation Halton works with in-house staff and consultants to ensure projects that meet or exceed client expectations as well as planning and permitting requirements. Conservation Halton is focused on innovative and practical solutions, high quality designs and a smooth permitting process, thanks to our experience with regulatory agencies.
Implementation
Conservation Halton takes a hands-on approach to construction management in order to ensure that actions throughout the implementation stage are successful. As an additional benefit, our team often performs tasks such as site preparation, invasive species management, planting, wildlife habitat feature installation, and monitoring, as part of project implementation. Also, we often find solutions for local material use and re-use as a result of our many local partnerships, which reduce project cost.
Compensation Services
Conservation Halton staff are experienced in securing and implementing projects to satisfy a variety of compensation requirements to be completed through your project approval. For instance, our team has extensive knowledge of the Endangered Species Act and project opportunities to fulfill overall benefit requirements, as well as restoration services resulting from Fisheries Act Fish Habitat Compensation, environmental assessment processes, municipal tree by-laws and others.
Service Fees
Fee-for-service conservation agreements outline the responsibilities of Conservation Halton and the client. Conservation Halton charges a full cost-recovery for services. Previous clients have included municipalities, the province of Ontario, utility service providers, members of the development community, and many more.
For more information, contact us at restoration@hrca.on.ca