Some more natural areas of the province might have protected status in the years to come. That's because the provincial environment department is pressing ahead with consultations on ten new protected areas. The areas were among those proposed by an advisory council back in 2021, in a report called Home for Nature. The Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Advisory Council, or WERAC, recommended the protection of 32 sites in all. Now, this is an important step toward putting protection in place for some of them. Bernard Davis is Minister of Environment and Climate Change.