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The first national wetland policy of Canada is The Federal Policy on Wetland Conservation which was established in 1991. [1] It came to fruition after Environment Canada developed a statement on wetlands issues in Canada in 1986 and early 1987. [1]
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.
In July 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the Government of Canada would provide the project with $5.2 billion of financial support to compensate for its large cost overrun (from $6.2 billion to over $13 billion) and to enable the province to maintain the price of power at a competitive rate (14.7 cents per kilowatt-hour).
Southern James Bay is a coastal wetland complex in northeastern Ontario, Canada bordering James Bay and Quebec.It was designated as a wetland of international importance via the Ramsar Convention on May 27, 1987.
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]
The government of Canada proposed the boundaries of the Tantramar Marshes in 1966 and was declared a National Wildlife Area in 1978. The marshes are an important stopover for migrating waterfowl such as semipalmated sandpipers and Canada geese. Now a National Wildlife Area, the marshes are the site of two bird sanctuaries.
The Columbia Wetlands is a 15,070 hectare wetland in the Columbia Valley region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It was designated a wetland of international importance on World Environment Day, June 5, 2005, and is the thirty-seventh such site in Canada. [2] The wetland satisfies all the inclusion criteria of the Ramsar Convention.
There is a rich diversity of wetlands in this ecozone owing to the presence of the Great Lakes and two major rivers, the Ottawa River and the St. Lawrence River. The wetlands on the Great Lakes are influenced by the slope of the shoreline, the type of substrate, exposure to waves, and the natural water level changes that characterize these ...