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  2. Wetlands and wetland policies in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Most provinces and territories have implemented a wetland management program but not all have wetland conservations policies in place to protect wetlands. [4] This is due in part to The Federal Policy on Wetland Conservation being depicted as a partnership between provincial and territorial governments in combination with private sections. [1]

  3. No net loss - Wikipedia

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    "No net loss" is defined by the International Finance Corporation as "the point at which the project-related impacts on biodiversity are balanced by measures taken to avoid and minimize the project's impacts, to understand on site restoration and finally to offset significant residual impacts, if any, on an appropriate geographic scale (e.g local, landscape-level, national, regional)."

  4. North American Waterfowl Management Plan - Wikipedia

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    It was established in 1986 by Canada and the United States, and expanded to include Mexico in 1994. In the United States, it was authorized by the North American Wetlands Conservation Act of 1989 (P.L. 101-233), and is administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service, with USDA agencies participating as appropriate.

  5. Ducks Unlimited Canada - Wikipedia

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    Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is a Canadian non-profit environmental organization that works to conserve, create, restore and manage Canadian wetlands and associated uplands in order to provide healthy ecosystems that support North American waterfowl, other wildlife and people. [1]

  6. Biodiversity banking - Wikipedia

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    Biodiversity banks and the credits that are generated from them rely on regulations and legal frameworks. When establishing a biodiversity bank, a legal arrangement, such as a conservation easement (also known as a conservation covenant) might be required to set aside the land for conservation and prevent the use of the land for development, either in perpetuity or for a specified time period ...

  7. Mitigation banking - Wikipedia

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    The mitigation banking concept has been extended to develop other forms of biodiversity banking that are applied outside of the United States as a mechanism for biodiversity offsetting. [18] For example, mitigation banking has been used to inform and shape biodiversity banking frameworks in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Colombia, and Brazil.

  8. North American Wetlands Conservation Act - Wikipedia

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    The North American Wetlands Conservation Act signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on December 13, 1989 authorizes a wetlands habitat program, administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which provides grants to protect and manage wetland habitats for migratory birds and other wetland wildlife in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

  9. National Marine Conservation Area - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, Nature Canada [4] developed its Marine Conservation Program in recognition that marine ecosystems were as affected by human activity as terrestrial ecosystems. At that time, Canada's National Parks Act [5] was designed to guide conservation and protection only on land.