Canada needs better protection for its ocean-protected areas, says new report

Many of Canada’s Marine Protected Areas have weak or ineffective safeguards against the ecological impacts of development and exploitation.

A new report by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) suggests Canada is compromising the quality of our ocean protection efforts. Photograph courtesy of James Wheeler/CPAWS

Opinion

BY SANDRA SCHWARTZ

November 10, 2021

When Canada declared 14 per cent of its ocean was protected from overfishing, pollution and industrial development a couple of years ago, the world took notice of a come-from-behind conservation champion. The country had pledged...

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