Law Suit for Piping Plovers
Conservation Groups Join to Force the Canadian Government to Identify Critical Habitat for Piping Plovers
The Canadian Species at Risk Act protects critical habitat for endangered species, but critical habitat has never been identified for the Piping Plover.
Nature Canada has joined forces with a number of other conservation groups and filed suit against Rona Ambrose, Canadian Minister of the Environment, in an ongoing effort to save the Piping Plover. The suit claims that Environment Canada has not implemented the Canadian Species at Risk Act: the act is designed to protect the critical habitat needed by endangered species – but can only be enforced if that critical habitat is identified.
In the case of the Piping Plover, critical habitat has not been identified in Canada though it has been identified in the United States. Piping Plovers nest on coastal beaches in Eastern Canada and on prairie salt flats – failure to provide legal protection for these breeding sites continues to threaten a species that is making a slow recovery from near extinction.
Read the full press release on the Nature Canada website.
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