Endorsement of Species and Ecosystems Protection Act

We support a Species and Ecosystem Protection Act, and endorse the following principles to work to protect species:

1. Enshrine the principle that healthy ecosystems are essential to healthy human societies and economies;
   
2. Recognize that biological diversity is essential to healthy ecosystems;
   
3. Identify, protect, and recover at-risk biodiversity throughout the province;
   
4. Protect and recover biodiversity by protecting habitat;
   
5. Identify, assess, and develop recovery strategies for at-risk biodiversity on the basis of sound science;
   
6. Enshrine the precautionary principle, the principle of intergenerational equity, and the polluter-pays principle;
7. Regire citizen, community, and First Nations participation;
8. Require accountability and transparency;
   
9. Be funded; and
   
10. Be enforced