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Banff National Park established by Order In Council
Canada's first National Park and the world's third, Banff National Park was created as a wilderness recreation park and vacation spa, but its guidelines did not contain any explicit conservation function. -
Rokcy Mountain Park Act
The said tract of land is hereby reserved and set apart as a public park and pleasure ground for the benefit, advantage and enjoyment of the people of Canada, subject to the provisions of this Act and of the regulations hereinafter mentioned, and shall be known as the Rocky Mountains Park of Canada. -
Boundary Waters Treaty
Created the International Joint Commission, which was established to prevent or resolve disputes and assist Canadian and American governments to share common water supplies, most importantly the Great Lakes, in an equitable and responsible way. -
Canada Wildlife Act
This act authorizes the acquisition of land by the federal government for the purpose of creating National Wildlife Areas; refuges under protection from habitat disturbance and hunting. This act also allows for marine areas to be recognized and protected. -
Candian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA)
CEPA is an mixture of several acts concerning environmental standards, protection, and penalties for violation. It deals mostly with regulations of pollution. -
Wildlife Policy For Canada
This part of legislation was a major step in a new way of looking at conservation, by emphasizing the maintenance and restoration of biodiversity and ecological processes. -
Migratory Birds Convention Act (MBCA)
This act prevents the commercialization of migratory birds by hunting and trafficking, and allows the federal government to establish Migratory Bird Refuges in areas of importance to birds, protecting them from the threat of habitat destruction and overhunting so that some species dont become extinct in xome places because of overhunting. -
Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
This act was passed to ensure that rigorous environmental assessment would be performed for projects carried out by the federal government or Crown corporations and that the assessment would include public consultation. -
Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
This act was passed to ensure that rigorous environmental assessment would be performed for projects carried out by the federal government or Crown corporations. -
Wild Animal & Plant Protection & Regulation of International & Interprovincial Trade Act
WAPPRIITA, (the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act,) enforces stricter control over the illegal trade of wildlife and plants and bans commercial trade of endangered species. -
Bill C-65 Introduced
This bill, which would have been Canada's first law to protect endangered and threatened species, did not pass. Concerns over the bill included a lack of provision for species on private lands -
Species At Risk Act (SARA)
The Species at Risk Act would have not only directly protected species at risk, but also their habitat.Responsibility for the Act would have fallen to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans for aquatic species, the Minister of Heritage for species in National Parks, and Environment Canada for all other species and habitats, to keep them not at risk.