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banff national park
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. -
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. -
Canada 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. -
wildlife policy for Canada
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. -
the national forest strategy
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. -
Canadian Biodiversity Science Assessment
The Canadian Biodiversity Science Assessment evaluated the state of biodiversity, the impact of human activity, and the adequacy of protected areas in Canada. -
Canadian Biodiversity Strategy
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). -
Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Inter provincial Trade Act
This act defines Canada's commitment to the principles of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora -
bill C-65 introduction
This bill, which would have been Canada's first law to protect endangered and threatened species, did not pass. -
Canada Oceans Act
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.