Reviewing the Ontario's…

Reviewing the Ontario's Endangered Species Act is a great opportunity for wildlife, future generations, human prosperity and protecting biodiversity - but "creating efficiencies for business" will unlikely contribute to any of these. Historically, creating efficiencies for businesses while ignoring the impacts they have on the natural world, and the human experience of it, have led us to a situation where environmental degradation is reaching catastrophic realms.

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. Companies want long-term plans, and clear bans on certain areas is a long-term plan that companies can work around if informed properly.

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 is in decline – by a whopping 83 percent. Provincial governments must be part of the solution! The species-at-risk habitat shouldn’t be open for business!