The Upper Thames River CAP covers 39,040 ha (96,470 acres; 390.4 km2) of land extending from Fanshawe Lake at the northeast end of the City of London southwest to the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation. The CAP includes portions of five subwatersheds of the Upper Thames River as well as a small portion of the Lower Thames River watershed. Despite the fact that much of the area is occupied by Canada’s tenth largest city, with a metropolitan population of 457,000 people (Statistics Canada 2006), the Upper Thames River CAP provides habitat for least 33 extant terrestrial and aquatic SAR, with another dozen or so SAR having occurred historically.
