On the one hand, we pay farmers to put up artificial bird boxes while, on the other, we encourage them to destroy the natural habitat of birds and other animals.

Then he had a fake lake built just steps from Lake Ontario.

In both cases, Vale Inco is working with bird biologists to set up nesting boxes and with the Ministry of Natural Resources to try to figure out how to operate the mine and how not to disturb the peregrine falcon and ensure its recovery.

We must initiate programmes for creating surface storage facilities for rain water in forested, agricultural and urban areas through legislative instruments and through non-investment and investment measures which will make a fundamental contribution to rainwater storage in the countryside.

Working with the American authorities, we moved as quickly as we could to normalize the relationship so that there was no long-term artificial impediment.

Under this heading, funding has been approved for the modernization of 67 shellfish units and 16 lagoon farming installations for finfish and shellfish, along with several projects to build modern facilities for traditional species such as trout (3 units), carp (1 unit), catfish (1 unit), mussels (4 units), oysters (4 units); - to expand technologically more advanced aquaculture by financing the expansion or construction of facilities (sometimes including a hatchery) for the production of salmon, sea bass, sea bream, turbot, eel (intensive facilities) carpet shell and shrimp, totalling 50 units and 11 hatcheries for marine species; - t ...[+++]o encourage species diversification in order to avoid market surpluses, by the grant of aid for the conversion of existing facilities and development of new species; in addition, one artificial reef will be built under a scheme to restock coastal waters. 2 Including 9 artificial reef projects.