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PROTECT OUR COUNTRY AND PROVINCE - it is a natural place of beauty and life, and keeping it is the only way we will survive. Don't let industry take away something that CANNOT be replaced.
Ontario is home to 243 species at risk of extinction. Already, routinely granted exemptions to the Act make it far too easy for development and industry to tear up and cut through critical habitat. Changes to the Endangered Species Act should improve protections, not water them down even further. This review won’t help species at risk if it doesn’t address exemptions that make it too easy for business and industry to do even more harm to critical habitat. Clearly defined no-go zones protect wildlife – while creating efficiencies for business by making it clear where development won’t be permitted. We need protections that lead to recovery for species-at-risk in Ontario– we don’t need changes that will drive more species to extinction. Half of Canada’s wildlife are in decline – by 83 per cent (!?!?!).
Provincial governments must be part of the solution.
Submitted February 27, 2019 3:49 PM
Comment on
10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper
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