Nature Reserve Park (Ontario)
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Nature Reserve is the designation given by the Provincial Parks System
of Ontario, Canada, for parks which protect specific areas of at risk or unique flora
or fauna
. Very few are open to the public, and virtually all of them forbid camping, fishing, or any other potentially environmentally hazardous activity.
Ontario Parks
Ontario Parks is the branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources that administers the provincial parks in Ontario, Canada. The Ontario Parks system covers over 78,000 square kilometres , about 10 percent of the province's surface area or the equivalent of an area approximately equal to Nova Scotia...
of Ontario, Canada, for parks which protect specific areas of at risk or unique flora
Flora
Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:...
or fauna
Fauna
Fauna or faunæ is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora.Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess shale fauna"...
. Very few are open to the public, and virtually all of them forbid camping, fishing, or any other potentially environmentally hazardous activity.