Toronto’s impressive ravine system…
- Reduces the effects of climate change
- Supports biodiversity
- Provides habitat for plants and animals
- Improves air quality
- Buffers wind and noise
- Reduces temperature and humidity
- Helps prevent erosion
- Helps control flooding
- Improves mental and physical health and well-being
- Improves quality of life
- Holds cultural history like Indigenous settlements
- Contributes to Toronto’s unique identity
- Supports tourism
- Inspires nature education
- Offers recreational spaces
- Increases property value
- Decreases heating and cooling costs
- Adds natural beauty
We can only reap these benefits if we restore and protect ravine health. That’s where you come in.
Learn about your land, Toronto’s ravines and the problem.