Time for a TIMEline

By SOMEGUYMAKINGATIMELINE

  • Fisheries Act

    conservation and protection of fish habitat essential to sustaining freshwater and marine fish species

  • Ramsar Convention

    intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.

  • COSEWIC created

    Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada

  • The United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (The Brundtland Commission) releases its report "Our Common Future"

  • 8 Diversity United Nations Environment Programmes (UNEP)

    8 Diversity United Nations Environment Programmes (UNEP)

  • Wildlife Policy for Canada

    This piece of legislation was a major step 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.

  • Agenda 21

    Agenda 21 is an agreement between more than 178 states and UN organizations outlining goals for environmental action and sustainable development in the twenty-first century

  • Canadian Environmental Assessment Act

  • The Canadian Endangered Species Conservation Council (CESCC)

  • Species at Risk Act (SARA) introduced and killed