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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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The world wildlife foundation has found that half of the Earth's wildlife has disappeared in the past 40 years. Species who are at risk in Ontario deserve our protection. As a rural Ontario resident I witness and hear of poaching by both locals and tourists all the time. Read more

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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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Species at risk are canaries in the proverbial coal mine. It is how we look after the most vulnerable parts of our society that defines our character as a province. The environment is every much a part of our society as are the people, businesses and industries. Read more

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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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Businesses should not get an automatic exemption to this Act. If protecting species at risk is a priority, a permit blindly given out to anyone who can make a "significant social or economic benefit" is not helping species at risk. Read more

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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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It should be damn near impossible for the " do the wrong and oops! ask for forgiveness after the fact" mentality and ever more increasing instances of this happening. Need stronger legislation and commitment to upholding it.

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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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The ESA is not meant to be an economically easy thing to do. The ESA's purpose is to protect species at risk and so it shouldn't be an easy thing to gain access to destroy potential habitat for species at risk. Read more

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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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The ESA, in its current state, does not require any changes; these proposed changes, however, weaken the protections provided by the Act. For example, the current Act already considers landscape planning, so there is no need to replace the current species-specific approaches. Read more

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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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I am writing to address the potential changes to Ontario’s Endangered Species Act. As a citizen of this province I am gravely concerned with the proposed changes to the ESA, an act which by its nature is designed to protect one of our greatest resources, our ecosystem and our biodiversity. Read more

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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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The Endangered Species Act (ESA) already covers all necessary fields to effectively protect and assist in recovery of species at risk. The main issue with the ESA currently is lack of implementation, not lack of regulations or guidelines. Read more

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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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Do not exempt businesses and industries from prohibitions, especially not for efficiencies. Hold EVERYONE accountable, and to the highest standards - which means no favouring or fast tracking certain groups/individuals through a process because of money. Stricter prohibitions. Read more

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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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I am very concerned about the proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act. These appear to water down protections that ought to be strongly implemented to maintain healthy ecosystems, ecosystems that are fundamental to human well being. Read more

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10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper

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21 February, 2019 Public Input Coordinator Species Conservation Policy Branch 300 Water Street Floor 5N Peterborough ON K9J 3C7 Canada RE: 10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: Discussion Paper, ERO number 013-4143 To whom it may concern, Read more

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