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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Species at Risk Act"”.
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Keeping up with the feds: The provincial response to Canada's Species at Risk Act
This thesis examines how the threat of federal intrusion into provincial jurisdiction over natural resource management which accompanied the development and passage of Canada's Species at Risk Act (SARA) has impacted provincial legislation and policies aimed at protecting endangered species. SARA's …
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Embryotoxicity of dioxin-like chemicals extracted from American eels (Anguilla rostrata) from the St. Lawrence River System
The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) has suffered a serious population decline in Lake Ontario since the early 1980s due to a decline in recruitment of juveniles migrating from the Sargasso Sea. This has resulted in the closure of the Lake Ontario fishery in 2004 and its listing as endangered under …
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As We Move Ahead Together: Foregrounding Reconciliating and Renewed First Nation/ Non-Aboriginal Relations in Environmental Management and Research
The research project upon which this dissertation is based focused on enhancing understandings of the nature of current First Nations/non-Aboriginal relations in environmental management. The project was undertaken as a collaborative initiative by the author, a non-Aboriginal doctoral researcher, …
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Aquatic community response to Zequanox®: a mesocosm experiment
… mussels (Dreissena spp.) are European freshwater molluscs that have invaded most major inland water systems across North America, resulting in billions of dollars in damages and losses to fisheries, recreational water use, infrastructure, and industry each year. Zequanox®, a biopesticide made …
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Differential habitat selection of black bears, gray wolves, and boreal caribou in the Boreal Shield of Saskatchewan
… (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are listed as Threatened on Schedule 1 of the Canada Species at Risk Act, and critical habitat for this species is currently being defined across the country. Declines in populations have been driven largely by anthropogenic disturbance, and in this context much …
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Habitat characterization of Saskatchewan's Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae population
… dacotae (Skinner, 1911) (Hesperiidae), is an at-risk butterfly species that inhabits the mesic mixed-grass prairie. The Dakota skipper is listed endangered under the federal Species at Risk Act. Loss of native prairie is the main factor driving declines in Dakota skipper habitat and species …