Cootes Paradise

Cootes Paradise is a property with many boundaries, but it is primarily a property of the Royal Botanical Gardens at the western end of Lake Ontario and a remnant of the larger 3700-acre Dundas Marsh Crown Game Preserve established by the province of Ontario in 1927. Dominated by a 4.5-kilometre-long rivermouth wetland, representing the lake's western terminus, it is located on the west side of Hamilton Harbour in the municipality of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Cootes Paradise Environmentally Sensitive Area is a larger "core area" within the City of Hamilton's Natural Heritage System and has a very similar boundary to the original Dundas Crown Game Preserve. The Cootes Paradise Nature Sanctuary area is a 600-hectare environmental protection and education area within the core natural heritage area, owned and managed by Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG), a charitable organization established in 1941 by the Government of Ontario. The wetland/marsh is also often referred to as Cootes Paradise but is part of the Cootes Paradise Nature Reserve and core area, with these lands representing 99% of the unaltered lands along the local Lake Ontario shoreline (~25 km). The site carries multiple designations, including National Historic Site and Nationally Important Bird Area (IBA), and is also central to inspiring the local principles for the World Biosphere program. Within the region's local Ni

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