Canada needs to pick up the pace of ocean conservation
It was easy to understand what was being protected when the province of British Columbia announced the creation of the Incomappleux Conservancy last month.
Both Incomappleux and Gwaxdlala/Nalaxdlala are important steps toward the federal government’s commitment to reach “30 by 30,” shorthand for designating 30 per cent of Canadas’s land and water areas as protected by the year 2030. The planet’s oceans are under great stress from acidification, overfishing, garbage patches and warming waters. Many of Canada’s iconic marine creatures are on the edge of extinction: The narwhal, the sea otter, the leatherback sea turtle, the beluga whale, the Atlantic salmon.
Canada now has new standards for its marine protected areas: Oil and gas projects, trawling, and disposal of waste including organic waste, pesticides and pharmaceuticals, are now prohibited. Ottawa also announced a moratorium on seabed mining in waters under Canada’s jurisdiction. The newest addition is the Gwaxdlala/Nalaxdlala, in a portion of Knight Inlet, a remote fjord on the edge of the Great Bear Rainforest. The main protection authority comes via a closure of all fisheries – commercial, Indigenous and recreational.
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