Plein aire

Plein aire is coordinated by CPAWS Quebec and aims to help create protected areas or ecological corridors in close collaboration with local stakeholders.  Focused especially on the realities and issues south of the 49th parallel, CPAWS provides strategic and financial support to equip individuals, groups and organizations involved in conservation to respond to the needs of their populations and mitigate the growing nature deficit.

Even though their primary purpose is to preserve the richness of natural environments, protected areas are not glass domes. Indeed, many activities are compatible with maintaining biodiversity. Consider, for example, outdoor, adventure and discovery activities.

But the benefits don't stop there. Expanding the network of protected areas also contributes to communities’ economic diversification, while facilitating their access to nature locally. The latter benefit is not only essential to citizens’ health and quality of life, but it also ensures that ecological services critical to human life are maintained.