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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Project 2025 portrays the Fish & Wildlife Service as “the work of the Fish and Wildlife Service is the product of ‘species cartels’ afflicted with group think, confirmation bias, and a common desire to preserve the prestige, power, and appropriations of the agency that pays or employs them.” Embracing gas guzzlers. Download as PDF
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 17, 2025
Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment program manager: Bill 5 would repeal Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, 2007 , marking the end of most meaningful provincial protections for endangered, threatened and special concern species in Ontario. by killing homegrown renewable energy.
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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. For example, the Redside Dace and Butternut are just two of many species at risk that would be impacted by the proposed giant Highway 413.
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.
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.
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. Tell the government to stand up and protect species at risk.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 31, 2022
For example: Ontario undermined Ontario’s Endangered Species Act protections in 2019 with Bill 108, which empowered the Minister broad and reckless exemptions to let developers destroy endangered species and their habitat, delay extending any protection at all for species that desperately need it, and even “pay to slay” endangered species.
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