In December, the Species at Risk Act will turn 20 years old. Observers point to a critical flaw: it only applies to federal land, which often constitutes an insignificant part of a province. In B.C., federal crown land comprises roughly 1% of the province.
will turn 20 years old. When the law was passed in 2002, there were high hopes for what would become Canada’s most prominent piece of legislation aimed at conserving wildlife.
“There was a lot of excitement in the beginning,” said Andrea Olive, a professor of political science and geography at the University of Toronto.
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