Caring for Canada's Biodiversity
Caring for Canada's Biodiversity

Author: Canada. Biodiversity Convention Office

Publisher: Biodiversity Convention Office Environment Canada

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 52

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This report focuses on Canada's experience with respect to the implementation of Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which stipulates, among other things, that each contracting party shall develop national strategies, plans, or programs for conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. The introduction reviews the nature of Canada's biodiversity, the importance of biodiversity to Canadians, the responsibility for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and the threats facing Canada's biodiversity. It then describes the background to the adoption of the Convention in Canada and the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy, and sets out some of the key challenges faced by Canada in its implementation of the Convention and its national strategy. These are discussed in the areas of science and information for decision making, training and education, legislation and incentives, integration of biodiversity considerations into decision making, and monitoring progress. The final section reviews Canada's experience in international co-operation on biodiversity projects. The annex contains an inventory of initiatives which illustrate the degree to which biodiversity conservation and sustainable use is being incorporated into policies, plans, and programs at the local, regional, and national levels.

Conserving Wildlife Diversity
Conserving Wildlife Diversity

Author: Canada. Environment Canada

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 56

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"In 1992, Canada became the first industrialized country to ratify the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, which came into force on December 29, 1993 (United Nations Environmental Program 1994). The Convention recognizes that biological diversity is an important asset to current and future generations,affirms that conserving biociiversity is a common concernof mankind, and notes that it is vital to anticipate,prevent and attack the causes of biodiversity loss at theirsource"--Introd.

A Wildlife Policy for Canada
A Wildlife Policy for Canada

Author: Wildlife Ministers' Council of Canada

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 36

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National policy providing a framework for federal, provincial, territorial and nongovernmental policies and programs that affect wildlife. Policy's goal is to maintain and enhance the health and diversity of Canada's wildlife.

Politics of the Wild
Politics of the Wild

Author: Karen Beazley

Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 272

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Politics of the Wild details the 353 species at risk in Canada and considers both the intrinsic and the instrumental reasons for protecting biological diversity. It examines the need for habitat protection, terrestrial protected areas such as national parks, marine species at risk, and the various legislative and interest group attempts to preserve biodiversity. Public policy on endangered species is considered from both historical and comparative perspectives, as is Canada's role in establishing international agreements--the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and the Convention on Biological Diversity--and the government's failure in recent years to meet the obligations of these and other environmental agreements. The final chapter looks at the Species at Risk Act (SARA) and its recent predecessor, Bill C-65, and reveals the difficulties of crafting and passing such legislation in an increasingly decentralized federal state such as Canada. Both legislative attempts were criticized--by the environmental policy community for not doing enough, and by the provinces and business for trying to do too much. All the while, diverse regional interests and economic imperatives run the risk of endangering far more than merely Canadian species at risk.

The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife
The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife

Author: Max Foran

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0773554289

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Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of the failures of Canada's government and society to protect wildlife from human exploitation, Max Foran's The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife argues that a root cause of wildlife depletions and habitat loss is the culturally ingrained beliefs that underpin management practices and policies. Tracing the evolution of the highly contestable assumptions that define the human–wildlife relationship, Foran stresses the price wild animals pay for human self-interest. Using several examples of government oversight at the federal, provincial, and territorial levels, from the Species at Risk Act to the Biodiversity Strategy, Protected Areas Network, and provincial management plans, this volume shows that wildlife policies are as much – or more – about human needs, priorities, and profit as they are about preservation. Challenging established concepts including ecological integrity, adaptive management, sport hunting as conservation, and the flawed belief that wildlife is a renewable resource, the author compels us to recognize animals as sentient individuals and as integral components of complex ecological systems. A passionate critique of contemporary wildlife policy, The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife calls for belief-change as the best hope for an ecologically healthy, wildlife-rich Canada.