Maryam Monsef Announces 3000 Trees To Be Planted In Peterborough

82,700 trees will be planted in Peterborough, Grey-Bruce, Chatham Kent, Lambton, Middlesex, Norfolk, Elgin and Cornwall as part of Canada’s plan to plant 2 billion trees by 2030.

Photo courtesy of the Government of Canada

Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development Minister Maryam Monsef announced $232,325 in funding on Tuesday to plant 82,700 trees in eight rural Ontario communities.

Alus Canada, an organization that works with farmers to establish ecologically beneficial projects on their properties, will receive the funding and oversee the planting of about 3,000 trees in Peterborough.

This project is part of the federal government’s commitment to plant two billion trees over 10 years. It will create 79.4 hectares of forest on marginal or environmentally sensitive parcels of farmland.

According to a press release from the federal government, up to $ 3.2 billion will be invested in this project over the next ten years.

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