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The present Act establishes the Rouge National Urban Park, which is described in the Schedule, for the purposes of protecting and presenting, for current and future generations, the natural and cultural heritage of the Park and its diverse landscapes, promoting a vibrant farming community and encouraging Canadians to discover and connect with their national protected heritage areas.The Rouge National Urban Park, managed by Parks Canada, is Canada's first national urban park and home to a great number of combination of natural, cultural and agricultural features including 1,700 species of plants and animals, over 10,000 years of human history, and some of the rarest and best remaining wetlands, forests and agricultural lands in the Greater Toronto Area. Once fully established, Rouge National Urban Park will be 79.1 km2 in size, making it one of the largest and best protected urban parks of its kind in the world.The text consists of 62 sections dealing, inter alia, with the following aspects: management of the Park, park lands, pollution clean-up, prohibited activities, agricultural activities. One Schedule is enclosed.
