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Bulletin Board Archive-2006
 Manitoba
and Ducks Unlimited Canada Expand Protected AreasPosted: December 22, 2006 The Province of Manitoba and Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to include 3,443 hectares of DUC-owned land in the southwest prairie parkland as part of Manitoba’s network of protected areas. More… |
 Alaska-Yukon
Arctic Ecoregional Assessment to be released on CDPosted: December 20, 2006 The Alaska-Yukon Arctic ecoregion includes northern Alaska and part of northwestern Canada. The Nature Conservancy in Alaska has completed an assessment of the ecology of the Alaskan portion of Alaska-Yukon Arctic, developing for the first time a comprehensive picture of the patterns of biodiversity in the region and identifying areas of high biological significance. Reports and maps are available at www.nature.org/alaska, or contact us for a brochure and CD. For more information contact Amalie Couvillion. |
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Announcement and call for proposals Posted: August 23, 2006 We invite you to join us April 16-20, 2007, for "Rethinking Protected Areas in a Changing World," the biennial George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites. GWS2007 will be a week of reflection, reconnection, and renewal along the banks of the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. Professionals from every field in natural and cultural resources will gather at GWS2007 to create America's premier interdisciplinary meeting on parks, other kinds of protected areas, and cultural sites. More… |
 CCEA
National Workshop: Apples and Oranges - Applying the IUCN Categories
to Canada's Protected AreasPosted: May 25, 2006 The CCEA and protected area jurisdictions have prepared and applied a draft Canadian Guidebook to interpret the IUCN classification system for protected areas in the Canadian context. The work was done in support of the implementation of the Conservation Area Reporting and Tracking System (CARTS). This workshop will provide a forum to share lessons learned from applying the Canadian Guidebook, offer the opportunity to refine selected aspects to achieve national consistency, and recommend a path to formal adoption and approval by the responsible authorities. The Workshop will take place on October 1-4, 2006 in Nova Scotia. |
 2006
EMAN National Science Meeting July 10, 2006 Ecological monitoring practitioners, landscape managers and others interested in improving the effectiveness of monitoring are invited to submit an abstract for the EMAN National Science Meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba, November 20-25, 2006. |
 Manitoba
adds the Delta Marsh Wildlife Management Area to its Network of Protected
AreasJune 21, 2006 Delta Marsh, an extensive freshwater coastal wetland at the southern end of Lake Manitoba, has been designated as a wildlife management area and 8,125 hectares of the marsh were added to Manitoba’s network of protected areas. More… |
 Proceedings
of the Parks Research Forum of Ontario (PRFO) and Carolinian Canada
Coalition (CCC) Annual General Meeting 2005, Protected Areas and Species
and Ecosystems at Risk: Research and Planning ChallengesJune 22, 2006 The focus at the Parks Research Forum of Ontario (PRFO) 2005 Annual General Meeting was on species and ecosystems at risk in parks and protected areas but interest extended beyond this to include the roles of parks and protected areas in conserving species and ecosystems at federal, provincial and local scales. The proceedings contains over 40 papers which fall into themes such as monitoring and assessment, herptiles, fish, ecosystem management, ecosystem science, and planning. Of particular interest are papers addressing species at risk in Ontario provincial parks such as Rondeau, threatened fish and mussels in the highly stressed streams of the Carolinian ecoregion, and progress with conservation and restoration planning in the Sydenham River watershed. More... |
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new national framework of Canadian Protected AreasJune 21, 2006 A new national framework of Canadian Protected Areas has just been released by the Atlas of Canada (Natural Resources Canada) in partnership with Environment Canada (Canadian Wildlife Service) and the Canadian Council on Ecological Areas (CCEA). This digital base includes all public Protected Areas in Canada greater than 1000 hectares and is linked to attributes maintained by Environment Canada/CCEA in its Canadian Conservation Areas Database (CCAD). This database is currently evolving into a distributed network of provincial-territorial databases known as the Conservation Areas Reporting and Tracking System (CARTS). Whereas the Atlas framework provides a generalized national overview of Protected Areas, CARTS will provide the detailed view from the source agencies. This Atlas Protected Areas framework has been integrated with other Atlas frameworks at the 1:1M scale (populated places, watersheds, hydrology, administrative boundaries, transportation, census subdivisions). More... |
 Protected
Areas in Northern Canada: Designing for Ecological IntegrityJune 12, 2006 CCEA has published Occasional Paper No.16, entitled 'Protected Areas in Northern Canada: Designing for Ecological Integrity', as a background Phase 1 report of the Northern Protected Areas Project. The report includes a literature review of northern ecological area requirements, a survey summary of northern state-of-protected areas knowledge and planning, and prescriptive guidelines for maintaining ecological integrity of northern protected areas. Printed copies of the report can be obtained from the CCEA Secretariat at a cost of $15 each, or 5 copies for $60. |
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| Review
of Ontario's Species at Risk Legislation |
 Integrating
Land Management in AlbertaMay 23, 2006 Alberta is moving forward to integrate land management on its Crown land. Key stakeholders from the oil and gas, forestry, conservation, recreation and municipal sectors have been engaged to help define how to work together to minimize and manage the footprint that activities have on public land. The project is expected to be completed by February 2007. Watch for project updates to be posted on the website. More... |
 The
April Edition of the CCEA NewsletterMay 23, 2006 We at the CCEA are pleased to present the latest edition of Eco - the newsletter of the Canadian Council on Ecological Areas. The newsletter features many articles of local, regional, national, and international interest. More… |
 Nova
Scotia Private Lands Designated as WildernessApril 28, 2006 The Town of Antigonish has had 1,340 hectares of town land, including its drinking water supply, designated in the new Eigg Mountain-James River Wilderness Area.This designation marks the first time that lands not owned by the province have been designated under the provincial Wilderness Areas Protection Act. More... |
 New
Off-highway Vehicle Laws in Nova Scotia Improve Nature ProtectionApril 28, 2006 New Nova Scotia off-highway vehicle legislation improves protection of vulnerable areas such as wetlands, watercourses, sand dunes, and coastal and highland barrens from the impacts of off-highway vehicle use. It also supports existing prohibitions to off-highway vehicle use in protected areas such as parks, nature reserves, wilderness areas, cultural sites, and endangered species core habitat. More… |
 Albanel-Témiscamie-Otish
Park ProjectApril 21, 2006 The government of Québec has confirmed its intention to work in partnership with the Cree Nation of Mistissini to create Albanel-Témiscamie-Otish Park, a vast park totalling 11,093 km2, representative of the boreal forest in Northern Québec. More (English)… More (Français)…. |
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| Kejimkujik
- Help Us Plan the Future March 27, 2006 The public is invited to assist Parks Canada in developing a new management plan for Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site of Canada. The plan will provide strategic direction for the long-term management and operation of Kejimkujik. Please read the newsletter (English or Français) for more information. More… |
 Best
Practice Protected Area Guidelines SeriesMarch 6, 2005 The WCPA PA Management Best Practice Guidelines are now also available in HTML version (in addition to the PDF format already on our website). This is part of an IUCN online publishing pilot project, where publications are digitized and tagged following a well established standard. There are two main advantages to this new system: 1) they can be easily captured by search engines like Google and the like; and 2) they are cross-referenced, both within the publication and also to outside sources, which greatly facilitates access to related links. |
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April 27th -28th, 2006 PRFO
AGM on Cross-Border Approaches to Protected Areas, Heritage Conservation
and Tourism. |
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Guide to the Wilderness and Ecological Reserves of Newfoundland and
LabradorFebruary 15, 2006 The Parks and Natural Areas Division, Department of Environment and Conservation, recently released a new brochure titled A Guide to Our Wilderness and Ecological Reserves in honour of the 25th Anniversary of the Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act (1980-2005). This Guide provides an introduction to some of Newfoundland and Labrador’s most spectacular natural heritage areas, our Wilderness and Ecological Reserves. For more information visit www.gov.nl.ca/parks or download a copy of the Guide (2.66 MB). |
 The
Ecological Survey of the Eastern Georgian Bay CoastFebruary 13, 2006 The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and several additional partners including the Georgian Bay Land Trust (GBLT) worked in partnership from 2001 to 2005 to complete the first comprehensive ecological survey of the eastern coast of Georgian Bay, a World Biosphere Reserve and one of the largest freshwater archipelago systems in the world. The project included two years of field inventories and several years or research and analysis. More… |
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Areas in Québec February 6, 2006 Please have a look at the following paper for Quebec’s protected area highlights for the 2005-2006 year. There are plenty of links to take you to their many accomplishments. More… |
 Québec
Biodiversity AtlasFebruary 6, 2006 Based on data held by the Centre de données sur le patrimoine naturel du Québec (CDPNQ), a member of the NatureServe network, the atlas provides an overview of existing knowledge on Québec's threatened and vulnerable species, discusses related conservation efforts to date and presents an approach for identifying conservation priorities. The atlas also proposes a draft regional action framework designed to ensure that biodiversity elements are taken into account in conservation and land management initiatives. More... |
 Valuing
Nature: Stewardship and Conservation in Canada 2006February 5, 2006 Stewardship and Conservation in Canada is a national conference (July 5-8, 2006). Following the success of two previous national stewardship conferences, Valuing Nature: Stewardship and Conservation in Canada 2006 will be held in Newfoundland and Labrador. It is appropriate that at a time when issues of environment and economy are often competing for attention, this conference will focus on the value of stewardship across Canada, and how environment and economy can complement each other. More... |
 Nearly
200 Volunteers Work to Develop Management Plans for Protected Natural
AreasJanuary 24, 2006 New Brunswick Minister of Natural Resources Keith Ashfield has appointed almost 200 volunteers representing a diversity of stakeholder groups to Protected Natural Area Advisory Committees. Local Committees were formed to develop draft Management Plans for Class II Protected Natural Areas. A Scientific Advisory Committee has begun work, and a Provincial Advisory Committee will keep the Minister apprised of all the committees' work and recommendations. For more information please contact Vince Zelazny. More… |
Beyond
Islands of Green: A primer for using conservation science to select
and design community-based nature reserves
The
Spring Edition of “The Golden Cod” Newsletter
CCEA
Establishes the Dr. Stan Rowe Home Place Memorial Fund
The
Protected Landscape Approach, Linking Nature, Culture and Community
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