Consultants working for Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation have identified the frog along the 59-kilometre preferred route of the proposed Highway 413, across the northwestern fringes of the Greater Toronto Area.
“We’re going to make sure that we follow environmental protections that we have very vigorously put in place, but it’s our priority to build the 413,” Ontario’s Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said during a news conference in early December.
Ryan Norris, a professor in the department of integrative biology at the University of Guelph, says threatened species are typically composed of small populations found in locations that are geographically separated from each other.
The presence of the frog’s breeding grounds in Montreal’s south shore suburbs halted a housing development there in 2016 and more recently, forced changes to a road construction project.
Norris led a study commissioned by the activist group Environmental Defence that identified 29 federally listed at-risk species along the highway’s proposed route.
The insect has been seen in only five locations across southern Ontario over the past 25 years, one of which is the upper reaches of the Humber River between Bolton and Kleinburg, directly in the proposed path of the highway.
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Consultants working for Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation have identified the frog along the 59-kilometre preferred route of the proposed Highway 413, across the northwestern fringes of the Greater Toronto Area.
“We’re going to make sure that we follow environmental protections that we have very vigorously put in place, but it’s our priority to build the 413,” Ontario’s Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said during a news conference in early December.
Ryan Norris, a professor in the department of integrative biology at the University of Guelph, says threatened species are typically composed of small populations found in locations that are geographically separated from each other.
The presence of the frog’s breeding grounds in Montreal’s south shore suburbs halted a housing development there in 2016 and more recently, forced changes to a road construction project.
Norris led a study commissioned by the activist group Environmental Defence that identified 29 federally listed at-risk species along the highway’s proposed route.
The insect has been seen in only five locations across southern Ontario over the past 25 years, one of which is the upper reaches of the Humber River between Bolton and Kleinburg, directly in the proposed path of the highway.
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