The Jesuit community is working to start an old-growth, native forest on part of its property at the edge of the city, east of Highway 6 near Woodlawn Road. The plan is to create a sanctuary for people, animals and plants, said Jim Profit, director of the Ignatius Jesuit Centre.
"It's to do something concrete for the future in the midst of the ecological problem that is happening," he said. The Jesuits will plant native species, and work to keep out non-native ones, because that's what birds, animals and butterflies have evolved to feed on. They also want to preserve the native gene pool.
"These trees don't grow elsewhere, and if we don't protect them here, they won't be protected anywhere," he said.
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By "starting" an old growth forest, do you mean protecting it?
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