Bill Atwood

A new bill that could make major changes to the province’s Endangered Species Act is drawing strong opposition from both the Perth County Sustainability Hub officials and a biologist with the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, who say the result will be significantly less available habitat for species at risk.

Meeting his second grandchild in the fall of 2018 made Bill James-Abra want to take action As he gazed at the infant while an older grandchild stood on his knee, he began wondering about the world they would grow up in. “I found myself thinking, ‘what kind of world are these kids going to inherit, and what do I want to do about that?’ And that led to me then thinking that there was a gap in Stratford to start an environmental group,” James-Abra said.