Order Giving Notice of Decisions not to add Certain Species to the List of Endangered Species (SI/2007-115)

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, pursuant to subsections 27(1.1) and (1.2) of the Species at Risk ActFootnote ^a ( “the Act”), hereby

• Return to footnote ^aS.C. 2002, c. 29

• (a) decides not to add the Bering cisco (Coregonus laurettae) and the black redhorse (Moxostoma duquesnei) to the List of Wildlife Species at Risk ( “the List”) set out in Schedule 1 to the Act;

• (b) refers the assessment for the ghost antler (Pseudevernia cladonia) back to the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) for further information and consideration;

• (c) approves that the Minister of the Environment include in the public registry established under section 120^a of the Act the statement that is attached as Annex 1 to this Order and that sets out the reasons for not adding the Bering cisco (Coregonus laurettae) and the black redhorse (Moxostoma duquesnei) to the List; and

• (d) approves that the Minister of the Environment include in the public registry the statement that is attached as Annex 2 to this Order and that sets out the reasons for referring the assessment for the ghost antler (Pseudevernia cladonia) back to COSEWIC for further information and consideration.