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Banff National Park Act was created as a wilderness recreation park and vacation park, but it's guidlines did not contain any explicit conservation function.
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Purpose and powers of the board to regulate water levels in Ontario, Manitoba, and U.S. system including Lake of the woods, Lac Seul, and the Winnipeg and English Rivers.
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Enhancing the quality of the natural enviroment, providing weather services, coordinating polices and programs to achieve environmental objectives.
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Authorizes the aquistion of the land by the federal government for the purpose of creating National Wildlife Areas: refuges under protectio from habitat disturbance and hunting.
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This was a major step in a new way of looking at a conservation, by emphazing the maintenance and restoration o biodiversity and ecological proccss.
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Laid out a plan for completion of an ecological classification of forest lands, completion of network of protected areas representative of Canada's forest.
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The act was passed to ensure that rigrous environmental assesment would be preformed to projects carried out by the federal government.
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Makes different levels of government put programs in act to protect endangered species and their habitats in effect.
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Bill c-65 would have been the first act to keep safe endangered and threatened animals, but it didn't pass.
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The act prevents the commercialization of migratory birds by hunting and trafficking.