Environment

By arielkinar

  • Canada was Created

    Canada is officially named a country of its own.

  • Banff National Park Established

    Canada's first National park and the world's third, Banff was created as a wilderness recreation park and vacation spa. The park is located in the traditional territory of the Kootenay, Stoney, Blood, Peigan, Siksika and Tsuu T’ina First Nations peoples. The exact date is not known for the day Banff was created, but it was in 1885.

  • Canada Wildlife Act

    This act allows for the creation, management and protection of wildlife areas for wildlife research activities, or for conservation of interpretation of wildlife. The exact date is not known, but it was created in 1973.

  • Canada Oceans Act

    This act recognized an Exclusive Economic Zone, which extends for 200 miles off Canadian coasts, encompassing almost five million square kilometers of ocean. Within the EEZ Canada may enforce its rights and responsibilities over exploration and exploitation of living and nonliving resources.

  • RENEW

    The Recovery of Nationally Endangered Wildlife program is a strategy which outlines measures for the recovery of endangered species and the prevention of the worsening condition of threatened or non-endangered species.

  • Canadian Environmental Protection Act

    CEPA is an amalgam of several acts concerning environmental standards, protection and penalties for violation. It deals primarily with regulation of pollution. The exact date is not said, but it was made in 1988.

  • Wildlife Policy for Canada

    This piece of legislation was a major step in a way of looking at conservation, by emphasizing the maintenance and restoration of biodiversity and ecological processes.

  • Canadian Biodiversity Convention Advisory Group

    Now known as the Canadian Biodiversity Forum, this group made up of non-governmental organizations and other representatives provides advice to the federal government on biodiversity issues. It was originally established to advise the government on the negotiation of an international biodiversity conservation convention.

  • The National Forest Strategy

    Canada laid out a plan for completion of an ecological classification of forest lands, completion of a network of protected areas representative of Canada's forests, establishing forest inventories; and development of a system of sustainable forest management.

  • Species at Risk Act

    This act was killed when the election was made in October 2000. The SARA would have not only directly protected species at risk, but also their habitat. SARA would have provided for scientific assessment of the status of species through an organization operating at arm's length from the federal government and would have applied to all lands in Canada.