Environmental laws in Canada fall short of addressing the ongoing biodiversity crisis
Caribou, whooping crane, Gibson’s big sand tiger beetle and dwarf western trillium are among the estimated 80,000 known species (not including viruses and bacteria) in Canada. Of these, scientists have enough information on almost 30,000 species to know that about 20 per cent are imperilled to some degree.
When Canada developed its first national Biodiversity Strategy in 1995, it did so under the assumption that a strong foundation of laws and policies was already in place. Twenty-five years later, however, prevailing biodiversity trends indicate otherwise.
Read the full article on The Conversation.
Read the open access publication in FACETS — The biodiversity crisis in Canada: failures and challenges of federal and sub-national strategic and legal frameworks by Justina C. Ray, Jaime Grimm, and Andrea Olive.
