You can protect your belongings and Ontario's black bears if you know some basic biology and take precautions in bear country. By doing so, you can help to preserve valuable wildlife habitat and maintain plant and animal populations that are decreasing as a result of urbanization. If you are disturbed because your children and grandchildren are being left a fourth-rate natural heritage the story can start here. The Great Lakes system is the largest freshwater system in the world, supporting extensive wetland habitat. Since 1800, over two-thirds of Great Lakes wetlands have been lost, through drainage and development.
Some species have already been extirpated from Ontario and others are now extinct.