Ojibway,  Canada's premier hotspot of biodiversity  is vulnerable to  proposed and potential development-Threats include the Big Box shopping proposal, (47 acres across from the Provincial Nature Reserve), the new Regional  Acute Care Megahospital  (candidate site 60 acres adjacent to Ojibway Park), and a shipping port and related facilities on the Detroit River proposed for 32 acre OJibway Shores, the last wooded shoreline. By making this green pledge, you will be saving what precious little natural land is left. These developments will destroy and fragment remaining natural areas and corridors, and bring heavy traffic, increased speed as well as noise (ie.sirens) through the critical habitats of dozens of threatened and endangered species. Currently 1 in 5 species (reptiles) killed on local roads is a Species at Risk. You will be protecting Eastern Foxsnake, Butler's Gartersnake, Eastern Massasauga, Blandings Turtle, Eastern Musk Turtle, Northern Map Turtle, Snapping Turtle, (turtles wander and cross roads between local ponds), as well as Grey fox, Cougar and 16 species at risk birds, including Eastern Meadowlark, Bank Swallow, Wood Thrush and Acadian Warbler,and threatened plants, including Dense Blazing Star and Willowleaf Aster (among other rarities) from population losses and possible extinction. You will be  supporting a Green Platform (such as the Ojibway National Urban Park proposal or equivalent protection) in the Windsor/LaSalle region, preserving  the remaining linkages, and pockets of tallgrass prairie  and Carolinian woods in a county with the least protected green space in Canada .  Ojibway Shores along with the  unprotected woods beyond Black Oak Woods near the river provide natural defences against  increasing pollution from Detroit (US STEEL, coal-fired plants, and Marathon Oil Sands refining ) and the Ohio Valley.  You will be offering the Children of the Tomorrow  a green and healthy future world where they can still see urban deer and all the prairie and woodland species every day!  Thank You!