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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"
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8 Diversity United Nations Environment Programmes (UNEP)
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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
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The Canadian Endangered Species Conservation Council (CESCC)
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Species at Risk Act (SARA) introduced and killed
