Ontario’s endangered species…

Ontario’s endangered species act is an act that protects species of living organisms that is listed as threatened and/or endangered by SARA. For this review session, they are looking for comments on how the Act can achieve its goals and fix some of its flaws. One of the biggest suggestions includes the landscape approach. In the endangered species act’s protection is based on protecting individual species and their life history, Whereas, landscape approach’s protection is based on protecting areas along with the species inhibiting in that area. Although endangered species act have its flaws, switching to the landscape approach will arise new different ones. Each species is unique and requires different resources to survive, which shows the complications and the huge amount of resources need for the landscape approach. Although endangered species act needs improvement, it is still the most efficient method to save species. One of the improvements that are needed involves achieving positive outcomes for species at risk. This is a debatable matter since rushing the results will cause unforeseeable consequences. Some of these flaws can be fixed with the help of the government as support, along with the cooperation of other landowners. An article explains that Ontario’s endangered species act can be unfair to the private landowners, because that group also wants to be recognized and included in the process (Olive, 2016). A potential way is to incorporate the landscape approach as a minor attachment to the endangered species act. This way, maybe the landscape approach can fill in some of the flaws of the endangered species act without wasting too much valuable resources.