The Lake Huron Centre For Coastal Conservation
Advocating Wise Stewardship of Lake Huron's Coastal Ecosystems

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Communications & Fundraising Coordinator

 


Coastal Stewardship since 1998 For more than a decade, the Coastal Centre has been working to restore and protect Lake Huron’s coastal environment, believing that the sustainability of the region’s coastal communities relies on a healthy coastal ecosystem.

 

Newly Released:

Oliphant Coastal Stewardship PlanOliphant Coastal Stewardship Plan

A number of rare species and several Species at Risk make Oliphant's coast their home. These plants and animals, and their habitats are affected. The disturbances caused by these impacts pose another threat: vulnerability to infestation from non-native, invasive species. More >>

Understanding Beach and Dune Ecosystems ERKUnderstanding Beach and Dune Ecosystems ERK

The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation has developed an educational resources kit designed to introduce students to a special ecosystem found along Great Lakes shorelines. Many students will have experienced a sandy beach on the Great Lakes, but few will likely appreciate the rarity of these ecosystems, and the plants and animals that inhabit them. More >>


 





Welcome ...

The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation was founded in 1998 with the goals of protecting and restoring Lake Huron's coastal environment and promoting a healthy coastal ecosystem.

While many environmental advocacy groups address local issues within the region, the Coastal Centre is the only grassroots organization focused on protecting the coastal environment lake-wide.

We also recognize that our work has to include the economic and social dimensions of sustainability. We believe that our coastal communities cannot have a healthy economy unless they have a healthy environment.

 

Our Priorities

The quality of our near-shore coastal waters and estuaries has become a point of great concern to the Lake Huron community in recent years.

The biological diversity of Lake Huron's coast is being compromised by over-development, fragmentation of forest areas, the spread of alien invasive species, and damage to sensitive coastal environments.

Climate change has far reaching implications for the Lake Huron environment. All of us who work, rest or play along the Lake Huron coast will be affected.

Coastal processes like water level fluctuations, flooding, erosion, coastal wetland processes, and beach and dune systems, are vital to the ecology of Lake Huron.

 


Closer to Home

We help local groups with environmental issues in their own communities. By helping people link with groups along other parts of the lake, the Centre serves as a vital bridge between local issues and the larger bio-region:

  • All our programs are rooted in a firm commitment to open dialogue and respectful listening, building effective partnerships, and making stewardship and sustainability real in our daily lives.

  • We seek agreement on a positive vision and collaboration; where that isn't possible, we maintain respectful relationships from which these can emerge in the future.

  • All of our work is about caring for our coastal environment in practical ways that can improve the health of the lake, its coastlands and its people. We take the big issues that affect our region and bring them to life at the local grassroots level.

The Coastal Centre is a registered not-for-profit, charitable organization dedicated to the conservation of Lake Huron's natural shoreline environment. The Coastal Centre functions as the local coastal management resource team for lakeshore communities, partnering conservation authorities, government agencies and the public.

 

Videos

The Story of Bottled Water was released on World Water Day (March 22, 2010) , n annual UN-sponsored day of action to support access to clean, safe water for the world?s people. Lake Huron is a major source of tap water in southern Ontario, and is one of the safest sources on the planet.

The 2010 Biodiversity Target was agreed by all Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2002: “to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on earth


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The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation
P.O. Box 178,
Blyth, Ontario, Canada
N0M 1H0
Phone: (519) 523-4478
Email: coastalcentre@lakehuron.on.ca