2025 Annual Campaign: Help Keep Central Algoma Wild and Thriving
Our 2025 Annual Campaign is in full swing. We’re working toward a goal of raising $30,000 by year end to complement the other fundraising efforts we’ve completed throughout 2025.
As we look back on this past year, we are reminded that conservation is built piece by piece through steady work, shared curiosity, and community support. This year brought meaningful progress for the Central Algoma Land Trust, both in how we care for the lands already protected and in the possibilities opening up ahead.
If you believe in this work, we invite you to help carry it forward. Your donation supports the on the ground efforts that make protection real, from stewardship and monitoring to the partnerships and planning needed to secure new special places. Every gift, of any size, helps keep Central Algoma’s natural landscapes thriving for the long term.
If you are looking to make a donation that is eligible for U.S. tax benefits, please visit the Friends of Central Algoma Land Trust website here.
Biodiversity in Protected Areas
Across the Central Algoma Land Trust’s nearly 500 hectares of protected land, we are seeing an impressive variety of biodiversity. So far, staff and volunteers have documented 1,684 distinct species of plants and wildlife:
679 plants
460 insects
230 fungi and lichens
174 birds
44 arachnids
28 mammals
21 fish
13 mollusks
11 amphibians
6 reptiles
18 other
And we are only scratching the surface. There are likely thousands more species still waiting to be found. Building this knowledge matters because protecting land is not just about drawing boundaries on a map, it is about understanding the living communities within them. The better we know what is here, the better we can care for it, track changes over time, and make sure the species and habitats we safeguard today are still thriving tomorrow.
Monarch feeding in a wood lily on the Gravel Point Preserve
Lang Family Preserve Celebrates 10 Years
This year marks a special milestone for the Central Algoma Land Trust as we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Lang Family Preserve.
Donated in 2015 by Susan Lang and Sheila Radford, this uniquely shaped nine acre property on Kensington Road, just west of Desbarats, has now been protected for a decade. The preserve safeguards a portion of the Kensington Complex, one of our region’s Provincially Significant Wetlands. Protecting even a small piece of this wetland system matters because every connected area helps sustain water quality, wildlife habitat, and the natural resilience of the landscape.
Lang Family Preserve
Focus Area Expansion
This year, along with our name change, we expanded our conservation focus area, and with that comes a wave of new opportunity. This growth is not just a bigger map. It means more of the landscapes, shorelines, and habitats that define Central Algoma are now within reach for long term protection and care.
Within this expanded area are places with real conservation promise, including natural corridors that connect forests to wetlands, headwaters that support clean water downstream, and coastal and island habitats that are increasingly rare and vulnerable. Protecting land across a larger area can safeguard wildlife movement, support climate resilience, and keep ecosystems functioning as a whole, not as isolated pockets.
While we have not established any new protected areas ourselves in 2025, we have been working hard on several exciting projects within this newly expanded focus area, and we look forward to sharing more as they develop.
Central Algoma region
Together, these updates reflect what steady, local conservation can achieve. We are learning more every season about the life our protected lands support, celebrating our existing protected areas, and preparing for the new possibilities that come with our expanded focus area.
If you are able, please consider supporting this work today. Your donation helps us protect and care for more of the places that matter in Central Algoma, now and for generations to come.
