That Council provide a letter of support to Sierra Club BC regarding advocacy for Provincial action for biodiversity.
from Sierra club. For a letter be sent to the province. Basically. There's a lot of requests from the community around preserving certain pieces of land. For biodiversity and park use, and there's limits to what we can afford as a city. And because of provincial legislation and the need for protection. We need to find alternate sources of funding for these, and so the request is. For the city to write a letter. Requesting. Support for the establishment of a local natural areas protection fund. An enactment of the provincial law for biodiversity and ecosystem health, which is consistent. With resolutions that have been supported at UBCM, and so there's a push to get. These pots of funding, provincial pots of funding to help municipalities. With property acquisition. For supporting biodiversity and parkland. So the letter set a recommendation around. Sending this letter, there's three recommendations. Just around wording, but centered around the request. For the province to create. These funds. And so I'd like to just move. That council. Follow the recommendation that the requested recommendation. In the correspondence that was sent by the Sierra club. I take