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Welcome to the Canadian Council on Ecological Areas Bulletin Board. Here you will find news and happenings from Canada's governmental, non-governmental, and academic partners in protection. Through open sharing of information, we aim to foster networking, partnering and excellence in the management of our treasured protected areas.
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JOB
OPPORTUNITY - Senior Conservation Ecologist, Lands & Protected
Spaces Branch, Ontario The deadline to apply is Friday, February 10, 2012 11:59 pm EST |
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2012 Stan Rowe Home Place Graduate
Award The CCEA is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for the 2012 Stan Rowe Home Place Graduate Award. Application deadline: February 10, 2012 Learn More... |
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JOB
OPPORTUNITY - Manager, Park Planning (Whitehorse, Yukon) The deadline to apply is Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
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JOB OPPORTUNITY - Managing Director,
Ontario Parks The deadline to apply is Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:59 pm EDT. |
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| Prince
Edward Island - More natural areas designated Posted June 22, 2011 An additional 525 acres of public land has been given protection under the Natural Areas Protection Act, says Minister of Environment, Energy and Forestry, Richard Brown. More... |
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 Province
Permanently Designates Largest Area of Protected Land in More Than
a Decade - Asatiwisipe Aki Management Plan Approved: BlaikiePosted June 22, 2011 The Manitoba government has legally designated 807,650 hectares of boreal forest and wetlands on the east side of Lake Winnipeg as protected traditional territory, Conservation Minister Bill Blaikie announced today. This new designation will increase Manitoba’s protected areas network to over 6.5 million hectares or 10 per cent. More... |
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 Consultation
Will Help Choose Protected LandsPosted June 22, 2011 Nova Scotia has taken a major step forward toward meeting its goal to protect 12 per cent of Nova Scotia's lands by 2015. Environment Minister Sterling Belliveau is inviting Nova Scotians to help choose which lands should be protected. More... |
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Winter 2011 Newsletter from
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Parking in B.C. provincial parks
now free |
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Protected Areas Program Coordinator, Resource Conservation Posted May 12, 2011 This is a permanent management position in Parks & Protected Areas Policy Section, and is based in Peterborough. The competition closes May 25th. Further information, including the more detailed job specification, can be viewed by visiting www.ontario.ca/careers and entering job ID number 36482 in the Job ID search field. |
 State
of Ontario’s Protected Areas Report releasedPosted May 12, 2011 Ontario's system of protected areas includes over 630 provincial parks and conservation reserves covering an area of 9.5 million hectares, or about nine per cent of Ontario. To help ensure transparency and accountability about this valuable natural legacy, the Ministry of Natural Resources is required to report publicly every five years on the state of Ontario’s system of provincial parks and conservation reserves. The first State of Ontario’s Protected Areas Report is now available. Analysing information gathered from 2001 to 2009, the report takes a big-picture look at the ecosystems, biodiversity and natural and cultural heritage that are protected within the system. It provides context for planning and management of provincial parks and conservation reserves. It describes the conditions, potential pressures and ongoing efforts to maintain and enhance the protected area system. And it looks at traditional recreational and educational opportunities and economic values and impacts at local and provincial levels. View the Report. |
| Conservation
plan unveiled Posted April 18, 2011 EDMONTON A conservation plan for Alberta's lower Athabasca region -part of a much larger draft plan for the region and the first of seven slated for the province -boosts conservation areas in the area to 22 per cent but will allow motorized recreation and honour existing oil and gas leases in all but a small fraction of those areas. More... |
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biology: The end of the wild Posted January 24, 2011 Imagine Montana's Glacier National Park without glaciers; California's Joshua Tree National Park with no Joshua trees; or the state's Sequoia National Park with no sequoias. In 50 years' time, climate change will have altered some US parks so profoundly that their very names will be anachronisms. More... |
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 Manitoba's
Newest Protected AreasJanuary 24, 2011 On December 1, 2010 Manitoba announced two new protected provincial parks located in northern Manitoba. Nueltin Lake Provincial Park captures 447,190 hectares of the transition zone between the boreal and tundra ecosystems surrounding Nueltin Lake, and provides important winter habitat for the Qamanirijuaq barren-ground caribou herd. Colvin Lake Provincial Park covers 163,070 hectares in northwest Manitoba, a vast wilderness made up of stunted trees with brief summers, known as the “Land of Little Sticks”. These wilderness parks in the Northern Transition Forest store an estimated 126 million tones of carbon, and bring Manitoba’s network of protected areas to 9.9% of the province. More... |
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Stan Rowe Home Place Graduate Award Posted December 23, 2010  The
Canadian Council on Ecological Areas (CCEA) is providing one or more
cash awards of $1,000 for graduate students (Master's and PhD in their
first two years of study) who are engaged in research related to CCEA's
Mission and Strategic Plan. The award may also be augmented by the
CCEA (e.g., inviting the student to present their work at the CCEA
Annual General Meeting; promoting or featuring their work in the CCEA
newsletter; and/or, publishing their work as a CCEA occasional paper).
The CCEA was incorporated in 1982 as a national, non-profit organization with a mission "to facilitate and assist Canadians with the establishment and management of a comprehensive network of protected areas representative of Canada's terrestrial and aquatic ecological natural diversity". It became a registered, charitable organization in 1995. Widely known for his book, Forest Regions of Canada, Dr. Stan Rowe gained special notoriety for his later writings on ethics and conservation, which demonstrate his intimate insight of ecology and the caring attitude that we need to adopt as environmental stewards. Dr. Rowe’s vision and leadership are a true inspiration for preserving wilderness in Canada. More information, including award eligibility and application
requirements can be found in the attached PDF (English
and French
included). All applications should be submitted by February
15, 2011. Interested applicants can also contact Chris
Lemieux (cjlemieux@uwaterloo.ca)
or visit www.ccea.org
for more information on the Award. |
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 IUCN
and UNFCCC COP16, Cancún, Mexico, 29 Nov - 10 Dec 2010Posted November 26, 2010 IUCN is gearing up for the 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancún, Mexico, which takes place 29 November to 10 December. This will be the first COP following the famous Copenhagen conference held in December 2009, which failed to reach an aspired new global legally-binding deal on climate change. There appears to be broad expectation that the adoption of a legally binding agreement may be postponed beyond December 2010. IUCN believes that while negotiations continue towards the ultimate objective of a global, legally binding agreement, it is vital that the COP takes confidence building measures in the form of a balanced package of decisions on REDD-plus, adaptation, technology transfer and capacity building. More... |
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 CARTS
available by download!Posted November 22, 2010 The CCEA is very pleased to announce that CARTS, excluding Quebec data, is now available to the public by download. Planners, analysts, reporters, etc., will be able to query the database directly according to their needs and create third party reports. Products will not be co-authored by the CCEA and it is the responsibility of the users to ensure that analysis and querying are done correctly. CCEA will not be responsible for any errors, omissions, or misinterpretations. More... |
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| Terra
Nostra Québec are this year's recipient of the Gold Leaf Award
from the Canadian Council on Ecological Areas Posted November 16, 2010 Terra Nostra Québec has received the 2010 Gold Leaf Award at the latest CCEA Conference, held in Ottawa on November 3-5. This year, the theme was Future Planning for Protected Areas - Responding to Climate Change. This prize was awarded in the ''individuals'' category in recognition of civic education initiative in the framework of the International Year of Biodiversity. More... |
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AGM and Conference 2010 - Responding to Climate Change - Posted September 28, 2010 The Canadian Council on Ecological Areas is inviting representatives of organizations responsible for protected areas in Canada, i.e. managers, researchers, professionals and representatives from non-governmental organizations interested in protecting Canadian land, marine and seascape, to participate in an upcoming conference on Protected Areas planning with a plenary focus on climate change. The last day of the conference will also coincide with the CCEA’s annual general meeting. More... |
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| Québec
bans oil and gas activities in the St. Lawrence maritime estuary Posted October 18, 2010 Québec government has decided not to allow oil and gas exploration or extraction in the maritime estuary and northwestern Gulf of St. Lawrence. The assessment shows that this is a complex and fragile environment and that many communities depend on activities connected with tourism and the commercial fishery. Québec government does not want to develop a new industry to the detriment of other existing. Press Release... (French only) |
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CCEA publication available. Publication #19 - Protected Areas and
Climate Change in Canada 2010: Challenges and Opportunities for Adaptation Posted September 29, 2010 This publication, sponsored by the Canadian Council on Ecological Areas (CCEA) in collaboration with the University of Waterloo, reports on the results of the first national synthesis on the state of climate change adaptation in Canada’s expansive protected areas sector. More... |
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| 39,000
Hectares Protected for Old Growth Conservation Posted September 15, 2010 The Province has identified an additional 38,779 hectares on Vancouver Island to protect old-growth forests, Minister Responsible for the Integrated Land Management Bureau Pat Bell announced today. More... |
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is mapping and reporting Marine Protected Areas Posted September 1, 2010 CARTS is now reporting and mapping marine areas where biodiversity is being protected in Canada. These include protected areas entirely in the marine environment as well as marine portions of protected areas that include the marine-terrestrial interface. The CARTS marine data has now also been synchronised with the Marine Protected Areas Technical Experts Committee (MPA TEC) database in support of the National Marine Protected Areas Network Planning led by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. CARTS marine-terrestrial data were provided to two new products recently. One is the Government of Canada report, Spotlight on Marine Protected Areas in Canada, 2010, and the other is the CEC North American Environmental Atlas on marine protected areas. |
| Updated
CEC North American Environmental Atlas Posted September 1, 2010 The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) have just released an updated map layer of North America's terrestrial protected areas as part of the North American Environmental Atlas. The 2010 data has more than 200,000 areas in the dataset, 50 percent more than were reported in the 2008 data. Terrestrial protected areas is one of more than 40 map layers already available to view and download free of charge from: English: http://www.cec.org/newsletter/Newsletter_August31_en.html Français: http://www.cec.org/newsletter/Newsletter_August31_fr.html Español: http://www.cec.org/newsletter/Newsletter_August31_sp.html |
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Areas Database for the United States (PAD-US) v1.1 now available Posted May 31, 2010 The U.S. Geological Survey, National Biological Information Infrastructure, Gap Analysis Program (GAP) recently released an updated version of the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-USv1.1) and a redesigned mapping application for viewing or downloading the data. More... |
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on Québec's Marine Protected Areas Posted May 27i, 2010 Short description: Held on June 10th and 11th, in Rimouski (Québec), Canada, this event wishes to be a place of exchange between all parties concerned with marine conservation in Quebec: government authorities, industry, resource users, academia, First Nations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), etc. More... |
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Portrait of Québec's Network of Protected Areas Posted May 27, 2010 Québec unveils a unique work in the field of protection of biological diversity, the Overview of Quebec's Protected Areas Network - Period 2002-2009, This document lays out the significant advances made by Québec in the area of the protection of nature over the last seven years, advances which have been achieved by the establishment of a network of protected areas which meet the most stringent of international protection criteria. More... |
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Global protected areas and IUCN
designations: Do the categories match the conditions? |
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 Government
of the Northwest Territories and Kátlódeeche First Nation
work together to advance Candidate Critical Wildlife Area through
the NWT Protected Areas StrategyPosted March 24, 2010 The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) sponsored the Buffalo Lake, River and Trails Area of Interest, proposed by the Kátlódeeche First Nation. The area is the first site to receive sponsorship from the GNWT and is now a Candidate Critical Wildlife Area. Following sponsorship, a working group will be formed to advance the area through the process identified in the NWT Protected Areas Strategy. More... |
| Ontario’s
Natural Heritage Areas Posted March 22, 2010 Their Description and Relationship to the IUCN Protected Areas Classification System contains a reference guide to Ontario’s variety of natural heritage areas and a provisional assessment of their relationship to the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) protected areas classification system. More... |
| IUCN sponsored a one-day meeting of experts in Toronto to focus on the findings of the Natural Solutions report (first released in Copenhagen). Here is the newswire story, including an open letter sent to Canada’s first ministers. More... |
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New National Park Reserve to
Protect Important Boreal Forest Landscape |
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 Manitoba’s
Newest Protected Wildlife Management AreasPosted: January 6, 2010 Recently, Manitoba designated two new protected areas in the Hudson Bay Lowlands. The Kaskatamagan Wildlife Management Area stretches along the Hudson Bay coast from the mouth of the Nelson River to the Manitoba-Ontario border. It contains 259,530 protected hectares in the WMA’s core, including coastal marine area. The Kaskatamagan Sipi Wildlife Management Area located further inland, protects 133,820 hectares in the Taiga boreal forest – Arctic tundra transition zone. Boreal areas store more carbon than any other ecosystem and it has been estimated these two protected areas alone store approximately 179 million tonnes of carbon in their peatlands and soil. More... |
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As with the terrestrial ecosystems, Canada shares many marine ecosystems and marine resources with the United States and Mexico in particular. The North American wide system of marine ecosystems hosts an incredible array and diversity of natural resources, from the northern Arctic Oceans through to the more southern Atlantic and Pacific waters. They are important for varied biodiversity conservation and socio-economic reasons. However, the integrity and sustainability of these marine ecosystems are under threat from pressures such as pollution, fishing practices, oil and gas exploration, etc. Further understanding these marine ecosystems is a positive step in assisting governments, conservation organizations and industry to better manage and conserve them now and into the future. The CCEA was central partner in contributing to the Marine Ecoregions
of North America, a new book and maps produced by the Commission
for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The CEC ( www.cec.org ), marine
book/maps was multiple year and joint effort conducted by American,
Canadian and Mexican organizations and professionals (ecologists,
marine biologists, geographers and managers). It product classifies
the surrounding North American oceans into 24 major ecoregions and
then smaller accompanying sub-ecoregions. Through maps, photos and
detailed information on habitats, biophysical features and human
activities, the book describes the diversity of oceans from the
Beaufort Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, covering the continent's territorial
waters in the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. More... |
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