Please • Focus on habitat…

Please

• Focus on habitat-protection measures that are effective for the listed species and that simultaneously improve outcomes for multiple species at risk.

• Work with other ministries to ensure coordination to limit cumulative impacts on the lands and waters that provide wildlife habitat.

• Repeal the long list of exemptions for forestry, hydro, mining and commercial development, approved by cabinet in 2013.

• Amend the law to set a higher bar for creating exemptions through regulation by ensuring they cannot jeopardize the recovery of threatened or endangered species.

• Ensure local communities benefit from activities to maintain and restore endangered species and their habitat, including rural and northern communities.

• Support the continued leadership and critical role of Indigenous Peoples in conservation initiatives.