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Enviromental Defense
MARCH 6, 2024
On December 20, 2023, Ontario’s Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks (MECP) proposed more changes that will weaken the Endangered Species Act, 2007 (ESA). The Redside Dace – a small, colourful and endangered minnow. Tell the government to stand up and protect species at risk.
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 25, 2022
Ontario Court of Appeals decision upholds vital habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Ecojustice, acting on behalf of Environmental Defence and Ontario Nature, intervened in the case. After a nearly 30-year absence, they returned to Ontario in 2007, including to Sauble Beach.
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Enviromental Defense
JANUARY 26, 2024
Policies that had been put in place to protect species at risk have since been whittled down, most notably by the current provincial government, as a way to prioritize development. Ontario’s (once) Promising Endangered Species Act Ontario was the first province in the country to pass an Endangered Species Act in 1971.
Arnold Porter
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
This movement of animals was part of the reason that city became the epi-center of illegal wildlife trade in the United States, with almost one third of all wildlife seizures occurring in El Paso between 2007 and 2017.[[N: and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).[[N:16 N:16 U.S.C. See How CITES works.]].
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
MECP claims that these changes will improve implementation of the legislation, however, this is only true if you think better implementation of species protection legislation involves making it weaker. For example, the Redside Dace and Butternut are just two of many species at risk that would be impacted by the proposed giant Highway 413.
Enviromental Defense
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Case challenges habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Habitat loss and degradation threaten the species’ survival and recovery – and beach raking has been identified as a threat to their habitat. Piping plovers are a migratory shorebird designated as endangered under the ESA.
Enviromental Defense
MARCH 11, 2022
Ontario court examines key habitat protection provisions under province’s Endangered Species Act. This case marks the first time the Ontario Court of Appeal will consider the meaning of “damage” to habitat under Section 10 of the ESA, which makes it an offence to damage or destroy an endangered or threatened species’ habitat.
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