Canada's Biodiversity Outcomes Framework was approved by Ministers responsible for Environment, Forests, Parks, Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Wildlife in October 2006. It has been developed further to the
Canadian Biodiversity Strategy, an implementation measure required under Article 6 of the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoni ...
Convention on Biological Diversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty. The Convention has three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity (or biodiversity); the sustainable use of its ...
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Criticism of the Framework
The Framework has been developed from the
Canadian Biodiversity Strategy, which has been criticized as having a tendency to focus on species and to assign less importance to other scales of biodiversity from the genetic to the ecosystem level.
Celebrating Biodiversity: Adaptive Planning and Biodiversity Conservation
See also
* Criticisms of the biodiversity paradigm
References
External links
Convention on Biological Diversity
Biodiversity Convention OfficeEnvironment Canada
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Ecology organizations
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Convention on Biological Diversity