Many animals in Canada face…

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Many animals in Canada face the risk of extinction. The major factors that put Canadian animal species at risk include the conversion of forest and grassland to urban and agricultural uses, commercial timber harvesting, hunting, fishing and the pollution of lakes and rivers (see Water Pollution). As of 2017, a total of 735 species were considered at risk in Canada, including 502 kinds of animals. (Other species at risk include plants; see also Endangered Plants.)
a. Look worldwide for the optimal science-based legislation to enact in Ontario and Canada.
b. Work with Federal agencies, and other provinces to create legislation that can measure outcomes.
c. Work with indigenous elders on how to improve the custodianship of the province's resources.
d. Legislate, with extreme prejudice, so that companies' executives, directors, and all people are incented to protect wildlife and comply with the laws.
e. Bear-baiting, canned hunts, helicopter hunting, or "trophy hunting" endangered species should be banned.