The Greenbelt Plan includes lands within, and builds upon the ecological protections provided by the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan, as well as the Niagara Escarpment Plan.
The Oak Ridges Moraine is an environmentally sensitive, geological landform in south central Ontario, covering 190,000 hectares.
One of the goals of the Greenbelt Plan is to promote the protection and restoration of natural and open space connections between the Oak Ridges Moraine, the Niagara Escarpment, Lake Ontario, Lake Simcoe and the major river valley lands, while also maintaining connections to the broader natural systems of southern Ontario beyond the Golden Horseshoe such as the Great Lakes Coast, the Carolinian Zone, the Lake Erie Basin, the Kawartha Highlands and the Algonquin to Adirondacks Corridor
- More facts about the Oak Ridges Moraine
- Maps of the Oak Ridges Moraine
- AnnouncementsNews Releases related to
this topic
- LegislationOak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act, 2001, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan, and related legislation.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- North Pickering Land ExchangeTo protect environmentally
sensitive lands on the Oak Ridges
Moraine, the province is
exchanging lands it owns in North
Pickering for privately owned lands
in Richmond Hill and Uxbridge.
- Oak Ridges Moraine FoundationA link to the Oak Ridges Moraine
Foundation Website. The Oak
Ridges Moraine Foundation is a
non-profit, independent from
government organization. Its
mandate is to fund activities
such as land securement, research,
land stewardship, and public
education, and to support the
creation of an ORM trail system.
- Oak Ridges Moraine Technical Documents
- Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan(Final - April 22, 2002)