The Future of Canada’s Ecosystems
The future of Canada’s ecosystems will be achieved through developing and implementing ecosystem management actions backed by improved education and ecosystem science. Canada will need to reduce the source and impact of the many threats to ecosystems such as controlling waste and pollution, and by carefully planning human uses of Canada’s lands and waters.
Establishing protected areas will continue to be a conservation
goal, but there is a growing awareness that most protected areas,
by themselves, cannot preserve the integrity of the greater ecosystem.
The trend to ecosystem-based management, whereby environmental,
economic and social values are measured and considered, will continue
to grow as a management model for landscapes and seascapes.
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