protected areas

Canada Gazette, October 19, 2005

Eastport Marine Protected Areas Regulations

Part II - Official regulations

Vol. 139, No. 21 — October 19, 2005 Registration SOR/2005-294 September 26, 2005 OCEANS ACT Eastport Marine Protected Areas Regulations P.C. 2005-1658 September 26, ...... Act , hereby makes the annexed Eastport Marine Protected Areas Regulations. EASTPORT MARINE PROTECTED ...

Winnipeg Free Press - November 09, 2006

Group Complains Province Failing Protected Areas

"The job is only a third done in Manitoba," said Gaile Whelan Enns, director of Manitoba Wildlands. "These are commitments to the public about protecting our natural lands and our forest regions, and the government is not following through.

Winnipeg Free Press - November 22, 2007

Protected Areas in North Expanded

[John Baird], flanked by Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl, aboriginal leaders and environmentalists, indicated this is the first step towards creating a new national park and wildlife area in a region that serves as a home for the boreal forest, tundra and the deepest water in North America, along with many different species such as caribou, wolf, moose, wolverine and the great horned owl.

Alternatives Journal - Vol. 30 Nbr. 4, September 2004

Parks for peace: around the globe, protected areas have been used successfully as venues for international co-operation.

... In a series of international meetings and negotiations beginning in 1997, the IUCN World Commission of Protected Areas undertook to inventory and develop a Code ...... Astonishingly enough, the inventory revealed that there were 169 groups of two or more protected areas that were already established along ...

Northern Review - Nbr. 2008, January 2008

Designing protected areas networks in the north: identifying representative area and the use of focal species in a Yukon case study.

Abstract: The science of conservation biology has made many contributions to improving biodiversity conservation within protected areas around the globe. Northern ecosystems are ...... Here, I present an overview of issues relevant to protected areas planning in the Canadian North, with a ...

Winnipeg Free Press - June 22, 2006

Delta Marsh Now Protected

Delta Marsh is a wetland located at the south end of Lake Manitoba. By being designated as a wildlife management area, most of the 11,000-hectare marsh will be protected from logging, mining, hydroelectric activity and oil and gas exploration. "Designating this internationally renowned wetland as a wildlife management area and including part of it in Manitoba's network of protected areas will secure this important habitat for generations to come," said provincial conservation minister Stan St...

Alternatives Journal - Vol. 23 Nbr. 4, September 1997

The bear necessities: Canada needs to take serious steps to honor our commitments to endangered species and spaces.

Canada has launched the Endangered Species and Spaces campaign to promote the preservation of wildlife as well as establish protected areas to preserve biodiversity. The grizzly bear is only one among the 268 endangered species in Canada.

Winnipeg Free Press - March 11, 2009

No Walk in the Park for Cree Nation's Project

"The government committed a number of years ago to the establishment of five protected areas in Manitoba, and to date the government hasn't established one park under this initiative," [David Crate] told reporters. He added the government has received "indications from some of the neighbouring First Nations" that there may some issues to be worked out, particularly with Fisher River's expanded park proposal, made in 2006, that nearly doubles the project to 160,000 hectares. "We have heard fr...

Winnipeg Free Press - June 05, 2006

Have Your Say

Even though woodland caribou have been declared threatened under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) since 2002, the Manitoba government has still not protected woodland caribou by listing them under the Manitoba Endangered Species Act. The province's own species advisory committee has recommended this action repeatedly since 1994. Fortunately, the opportunity still exists for Manitoba to take a leadership role in the conservation of woodland caribou and their boreal habitat, but we must a...