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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Freya Putt; Catharine Grant; Shane Moffatt; Greenpeace Foundation. |
ISBN: | 9780981037578 0981037577 |
OCLC Number: | 755294177 |
Notes: | "June 2011." |
Description: | 1 online resource (39 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps, digital file |
Contents: | Executive summary -- Highlights -- Introduction -- The importance of Ontario's southern boreal borest -- Premier McGuinty's unkept promises -- Legislation and policy failures. The Crown Forest Sustainability Act and forest management guides; The endangered species act; The Ministry of Natural Resources and woodland caribou; Promotion of biomass utilization for energy -- Institutional neglect: Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources -- Destruction of the boreal forest. Loss of intact forests; Regeneration problems, depleted land and lack of public support; Big holes in Ontario's protected areas network -- Social conflict in the boreal borest. The Ontario government and First Nations; Forest resources, dependent communities; Subsidizing destruction of the boreal forest -- Sustainable forest, protect wildlife and vibrant communities: the path forward; Recommendations; Endnotes. |
Responsibility: | [authors, Freya Putt, Catharine Grant, Shane Moffatt]. |
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Abstract:
Many Ontarians hoped and expected that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty would bring substantial improvements to ecological protection throughout the province once he came into office in 2003. While making a promise to put forward a land protection and development plan for the north of the province was laudable, Premier McGuinty's actions and those of his government are falling far short of sustainable management in the southern Boreal Forest. Under the oversight of his ministers of natural resources, the Boreal Forest ecosystem, which is a major store of fresh water, critical habitat for a wide variety of species, and an important carbon storehouse, has continued to be fragmented and degraded. Premier McGuinty has an important opportunity to act, but time is running out.
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