DFO's subversion of the letter and intent of the Species at Risk Act urgently needs to be adjudicated in court.

#SpeciesAtRiskAct #Conservation #Law #BullTrout #Logging

A classic problem with Canada's Department of Fisheries (DFO's) interpretation of the Species at Risk Act (SARA).

https://www.rmoutlook.com/kananaskis-country/federal-fisheries-agency-investigating-bridge-built-in-k-country-logging-activity-7484638

While the logging company failed to get a permit for this work, the real problem is that DFO would have given them one, as it almost certainly will, unlawfully, for the additional roads & watercrossings required for its logging operations. All of it potentially impacts legally-protected critical habitat for threatened bull trout.
#SpeciesAtRiskAct #BullTrout

Yet more on Canada's treatment of species at risk. Industry trumps any attempt at effective recovery.

H/T Jesse Zeman on the hellsite for drawing attention to this link.

https://thenarwhal.ca/spotted-owl-emergency-order-documents/
#Conservation #Canada #BC #HabitatDestruction #SpeciesAtRiskAct #CumulativeEffects

More on Canada's permitted destruction of legally "protected" critical habitat, harassment of a at-risk species listed under the Species ar Risk Act, and potential damage to, or destruction of redds of a listed trout species at Rock Cr, AB. Amanda Follett Hosgood writes in The Tyee:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/07/25/Alberta-Pipeline-Endangers-Threatened-Fish/

(See previously https://ecoevo.social/@dmayhood/110724653228022043)

#SpeciesAtRiskAct #Canada #Conservation #Pipeline #HabitatDestruction #Law #Litigation

Just to add hashtags: #Conservation #Canada #SpeciesAtRiskAct #HabitatDestruction #WestslopeCutthroat #Alberta #Pipeline #EnvironmentalDestruction

Lawyer Shaun Fluker critiques EnviroCan's draft Offsetting Policy for Biodiversity with respect to Canada's Species at Risk Act:
- It doesn't appear to meet SARA s.73 requirements.
- "Legal mechanisms under SARA for compliance and enforcement, as well as resources to implement such mechanisms, are currently woefully inadequate to meet the level needed to ensure a biodiversity offset meets its objective on habitat harms."
https://tinyurl.com/53spvxxu
#SpeciesAtRiskAct #HabitatOffsets #Policy #Canada

Environmental lawyer Shaun Fluker critiques EnviroCan's draft Offsetting Policy for Biodiversity with respect to Canada's Species at Risk Act & finds:
- It doesn't appear to meet SARA s.73 requirements.
- "Legal mechanisms under SARA for compliance and enforcement, as well as resources to implement such mechanisms, are currently woefully inadequate to meet the level needed to ensure a biodiversity offset meets its objective on habitat harms."
#SpeciesAtRiskAct #HabitatOffsets #Policy #Canada

#Canada #lynx no longer considered #endangered, changes made to #NewBrunswick #SpeciesAtRiskAct — Lynx still a species of concern, Act also better reflects species of #wolves once found in the province

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/wolves-and-lynx-nb-species-at-risk-act-1.6740027