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Help Protect and Preserve Our Wetlands

­February 2, 2025, is World Wetlands Day.

Together, let’s celebrate how vital wetland ecosystems are to our well being and quality of life! From helping mitigate the impacts of drought by slowly releasing the water they’ve stored back into surrounding areas, to providing wildlife habitat important for waterfowl and other species including key pollinators, wetlands provide us with a diversity of important ecosystems services. They really are one of nature’s solutions to a healthy and productive landscape and community.

­The time to act is now. Contact us or one of our key Partners to help you conserve these critical wetland resources – in the spirit of World Wetland Day – we invite you to join us as we continue “advancing conservation together” in 2025.

Ducks Unlimited Canada and Weyerhaeuser Partner to Protect Canadian Wetlands

On March 24, 2022, Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) and Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), spanning five years and including $250,000 in new funding commitments.

This agreement marks the continuation of a long and collaborative relationship between Weyerhaeuser and DUC that will involve several projects over a five-year period in the temperate and boreal forest regions of Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Saskatchewan. 

Efforts will include the continued development of best management practices designed to help protect natural habitat in this important working landscape, an inventory of carbon storage in wetlands for effective carbon accounting, and the creation of a Wetland Stewardship Report which will identify areas for future collaboration and knowledge-sharing.  

Learn more.