The urgency of the challenges we face today requires an immediate transformation of our vision of what is economically justifiable; a status quo would necessarily imply much higher future costs than those linked to the conservation of natural areas.

This is why the MARE supports the citizens' committee of Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac mobilizing to save a forest with high ecological value.

Here is the message that this committee wishes to share :

The citizens of the small municipality of Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac (VSLL) have been mobilized since early May to save the woodland adjacent to Lac de la Carrière (Darling lake) from Vaudreuil-Dorion. This wooded, located in a humid environment, is one of the last green spaces in this sector that has grown very rapidly in recent years.

The municipality, well aware of this project which would decrease the quality of life of its citizens, commissioned environmental studies in 2016 and 2018. These have demonstrated the great ecological value of wildlife (121 special status occurrences, 140 bird species including some protected species, especially the eastern one), that of flora and two recognized wetlands.

Despite this high ecological value, the interim regulation then adopted by VSLL can still be overturned and this precious forest irretrievably lost. A citizens' group was formed to alert the population to the threat of losing the woods. They answered the call in large numbers. The group also ensures follow-up with local elected officials so that concrete actions can be taken, because it is imperative
to act without delay.

Protecting wetlands and our last forest islands, slowing urban sprawl should be everyone's priority. This file involves multiple stakeholders and as long as the resolutions are not voted, the situation remains to be watched closely.”

10 July 2020 : good news !!!

TheMunicipality of Vaudreuil sur le Lac has just appointed a committee to protect the woodland of the RA-10 zone, recognizing its high ecological value!

MARE is proud to support theConsolidation In Favor Of The Protection Of Boisé De Vaudreuil-sur-le-lac in its struggle and we congratulate them on their great mobilization which is now bearing fruit!

Now you have to make sure that this woodland gets the conservation status it deserves, but it’s a concrete gesture that the municipality has just made to safeguard biodiversity and the well-being of its population

Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac on CBC

The CBC network made, this week, a report about the struggle ofcitizens of Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac to protect a forest of high ecological value from destruction.

To read a written version of this report, click here.

For more information, see our website.

Congratulations to the citizens' committee of Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac for all the work accomplished and hope that this woodland obtains the protection status it deserves !