Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Ontario’s (once) Promising Endangered Species Act Ontario was the first province in the country to pass an Endangered Species Act in 1971. Despite the leadership the province showed, the Act needed significant improvements to effectively protect species at risk. Where do we go from here?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

MECP claims that these changes will improve implementation of the legislation, however, this is only true if you think better implementation of species protection legislation involves making it weaker. Ontario’s Endangered Species Act has been weakened throughout the years through policy changes, exemptions and poor implementation.

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Government Endangered Species Act 2007 Environmental Protection 103

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

On December 20, 2023, Ontario’s Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks (MECP) proposed more changes that will weaken the Endangered Species Act, 2007 (ESA). The Redside Dace – a small, colourful and endangered minnow. One of the targets of Ontario’s latest environmental rollback?

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Endangered Species Act 2007 Government Conservation 76

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2022

Ontario Court of Appeals decision upholds vital habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Ecojustice, acting on behalf of Environmental Defence and Ontario Nature, intervened in the case. After a nearly 30-year absence, they returned to Ontario in 2007, including to Sauble Beach.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Case challenges habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Habitat loss and degradation threaten the species’ survival and recovery – and beach raking has been identified as a threat to their habitat. Piping plovers are a migratory shorebird designated as endangered under the ESA.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This movement of animals was part of the reason that city became the epi-center of illegal wildlife trade in the United States, with almost one third of all wildlife seizures occurring in El Paso between 2007 and 2017.[[N: and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).[[N:16 N:16 U.S.C. See How CITES works.]].

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 11, 2022

Ontario court examines key habitat protection provisions under province’s Endangered Species Act. This case marks the first time the Ontario Court of Appeal will consider the meaning of “damage” to habitat under Section 10 of the ESA, which makes it an offence to damage or destroy an endangered or threatened species’ habitat.

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