Acting through partnerships with landowners, communities, government, non-government organizations and industry, WHC seeks to identify habitat issues and find means for enhancing opportunities and developing practical solutions to problems facing wildlife habitats. Since 1985, WHC has provided grants of close to 33 million dollars to hundreds of habitat conservation projects across the full range of Canadian landscapes and seascapes, as well as all provinces and territories, through its granting program.

For a list of projects that WHC has provided grants to in the past four years, click here.

For information on WHC's project funding application process, please consult our project submission guidelines.

For WHC's funded projects, a template for the final fiscal year project report to WHC is available.

The majority of WHC's funded projects have focused on waterfowl habitats. This is a primary area of interest under the Wildlife Habitat Conservation Stamp program. For example, through the Joint Ventures of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), WHC has supported several wetland conservation initiatives in Canada, such as the Ontario Wetland Habitat Fund.

WHC's investment in NAWMP initiatives, and other conservation endeavours (i.e. North American Bird Conservation Initiative projects), has helped to safeguard habitats for a number of wildlife species. And because this investment was made through conservation and stewardship projects, it has also helped to create lasting, positive, working relationships among those who manage our land and water ecosystems.

For more information on WHC's grant program, please contact Claudia Latsch, Executive Assistant.