Biodiversity includes all living things and their relationships to each other, including differences in genes, species, and ecosystems.

In Maple Ridge, biodiversity is part of our parks, natural areas, wetlands, riparian areas, forests, and even your own backyard.

It is an important part of the natural systems that support both wildlife and our community.

Help Shape Maple Ridge’s Biodiversity Indicators Framework

Soon we will be inviting the community to provide input to help shape this important framework.

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Why is Biodiversity important?

Mature, healthy, biodiverse ecosystems provide more ecosystem services (the benefits nature provides to people) and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change. This can include buffering the impacts of storms, droughts, flooding, sea level rise, pests and diseases.

Maple Ridge’s Biodiversity Indicators Framework

The City of Maple Ridge is developing a Biodiversity Indicators Framework to better understand local biodiversity and track ecological change over time.

The framework will combine ecological information and community input to identify the places, species, ecosystems, and priorities that matter most in Maple Ridge to help guide future stewardship and decision-making.

This project supports the City’s climate action and environmental stewardship priorities, recognizing that biodiversity is important not only for healthy ecosystems, but also for community health and wellbeing, access to nature, and quality of life in Maple Ridge.