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The Victoria Harbour Migratory Bird Sanctuary or VHMBS is a 30 km protected area on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada, in the Greater Victoria metropolitan area. [1] It is located within the traditional territory of the Lekwungen People. [ 2 ]
Sign on the limit of Nicolet Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Quebec. Migratory Bird Sanctuaries are created in Canada under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994. They are administered by the Canadian Wildlife Service. [1] The first sanctuary in North America, Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary, was created by federal order-in-council in 1887.
See: Wildlife sanctuaries of India- For Example: Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary; Bandhavgarh National Park; Bandipur National Park; Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary; Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Idukki district, Kerala state; Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttara Kannada District, Karnataka state; Dudhwa National Park, Lakhimpur Kheri District, Uttar Pradesh
Pages in category "Wildlife sanctuaries of Canada" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Marshall-Stevenson Wildlife Sanctuary; P.
Australia: Great Barrier Reef: 348,700 1981 [27] 23 Offshore Trap/Pot Waters Area United States: Western Atlantic Ocean: 336,101 1997 [28] 24 Tuvaijuittuq Marine Protected Area Canada: Ellesmere Island: 319,411 2019 [29] 25 Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park Chile: Desventuradas Islands: 300,035 2016 [30] [31] 26 Cerrado Biosphere Reserve Brazil
The Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary, at 52,000 square kilometres (20,077 sq mi), [2] over twice the area of Belgium, is the largest wildlife refuge in Canada. [3] It is located in northern Canada's Arctic region, north of the tree line, straddling the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, halfway between Baker Lake and Yellowknife, and bordered on the north between the Baillie River on the west and the ...
Mount Gibson Sanctuary is a 1,305-square-kilometre (504 sq mi) nature reserve on the northern edge of the Wheatbelt and the southern margin of uncleared rangeland country, 350 kilometres (220 mi) north-east of Perth in mid-west Western Australia. The nearest large town is Dalwallinu.
Australian Wildlife Conservancy state that there 60 known species of birds at Buckaringa Sanctuary and 4 known mammals. [5] Some of the bird species are the wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax), the emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae), the sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita), the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), the sacred kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus) and the blue-winged parrot ...