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Categories of Species
The Minister responsible for the Wildlife
Act may establish one or more categories identifying
species of wildlife as species at risk, regionally
important wildlife or ungulate species. The authority
to take this action is enabled by section 13 of the
Government Actions Regulation. The establishment of
categories of species enables a number of other provisions
under the Forest and Range Practices Act to be used
to manage these wildlife species including wildlife
habitat areas, ungulate winter
ranges and associated general
wildlife measures and objectives.
Species at Risk
On May 3, 2004 the Minister of Water Land and Air
Protection established a category of species at
risk by order
made under section 11(1) of the Government Actions
Regulation (BC Reg. 17/04) of the Forest and Range
Practices Act. This category of species at risk
represents those species that may be affected by
forest or range
management on Crown land and are listed by the
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada (COSEWIC).
On May 30, 2005
one species was appended
to the category of species at risk
and in June 2006 the Minister of Environment appended 45 additional species and plant communities . Currently there are 85 species and plant communities included in the category of species at risk.
The 85 species
included in this category of species at risk form the
basis for the Identified Wildlife
Management
Strategy (IWMS).
ORDER - CATEGORY OF SPECIES AT RISK (SAR) May 3, 2004
(PDF 152KB)
ORDER - CATEGORY OF SAR - ADDENDUM - May 30, 2005 (PDF 23.6KB)
ORDER - CATEGORY OF SAR- June 5, 2006 (PDF 90KB)
Ungulate Species
On May 3, 2004 the Minister of Water Land and Air Protection
established a category of ungulate species by order
made under section 11(3) of the Government Actions
Regulation (BC Reg. 17/04) of the Forest and Range
Practices Act. This category of ungulate species represents
those species for which an ungulate winter range may be required for winter survival.
Notification of this order was published in the May
6, 2004 edition of the BC Gazette.
ORDER – CATEGORY
OF UNGULATE SPECIES (PDF 141KB)
Regionally Important Wildlife
Work is ongoing to identify the category of regionally
important wildlife.
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