Out on a limb: Ottawa is falling behind on its promise to plant 2 billion trees – Atin Ito News
November 25 2024
The federal government did not meet the targets for its program to plant two billion trees during the program’s third planting season.
NRCAN numbers show planting and spending are not keeping pace with the original targets.
Numbers provided by Natural Resources Canada show Ottawa did not meet its annual planting and spending targets for the 2023-24 growing season.
Ottawa and its partners were supposed to plant 60 million trees last season but only got 46.6 million saplings in the ground.
Despite the program’s slow rollout, a spokesperson for Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s office insisted it will still reach its 2030-31 target.
