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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.
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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.
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CEPA is an amalgam of several acts concerning environmental standards, protection, and penalties for violation. It deals primarily with regulation of pollution.
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This piece 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, rather than the more common piecemeal conservation approaches that had been emphasized.
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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 national indicators of sustainable forest management.
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The Canadian Biodiversity Science Assessment evaluated the state of biodiversity, the impact of human activity, and the adequacy of protected areas in Canada.
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As part of Canada's commitments under the Convention on Biodiversity, the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy was produced by a working group including federal, provincial, and territorial governments, academics, industry representatives and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
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This act defines Canada's commitment to the principles of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
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This bill, which would have been Canada's first law to protect endangered and threatened species, did not pass.
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This act recognized an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which extends for 200 nautical miles off Canadian coasts, encompassing almost five million square kilometers of ocean.
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