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Order Giving Notice of Decisions not to add Certain Species to the List of Endangered Species (SI/2005-2)

Regulations are current to 2024-03-06

ANNEX 2Statement Setting Out the Reasons for Not Adding the Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus), the Northwestern Population of the Grizzly Bear (Ursus Arctos) and the Western Population of the Wolverine (Gulo Gulo) to the List

With regard to the assessment process, the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) feels that the status reports on which COSEWIC based their assessments of the species for special concern were based on criteria and processes in place before the Act came into force and that those reports do not satisfy the new requirements to incorporate the best available community knowledge and aboriginal traditional knowledge. The NWMB also stated that consultations have not been sufficient. Those species are not being added to the List at this time in order to consult further with the NWMB so as to determine how its concerns can be addressed. The Minister may reconsider the matter after those consultations have been completed.

 

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