[NatureNS] Harper government's move on humpback whale is an

Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:13:40 -0400
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> On 2014-04-23, at 6:38 AM, Richard Stern wrote:
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>> From The Globe and Mail:
>> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/why-is-the-humpback-only-special-now-that-gateway-beckons/article18113453/

* evidently this is just following a COSEWIC reclassification of the  
species - though it's hard to imagine that any of the great Whales  
could be anything less than Special Concern. I don't know anything  
about the COSEWIC Mammal subcommittee, but I've heard from people on  
the Herps and Mollusc subcommittees that since the Species at Risk Act  
has come in there's been various bureaucratic pressures on the  
personnel that tend to dissuade dedicated folks from serving, and the  
process of bidding on reports - rather than inflicting them on the  
person who knows the species best - must compromise the quality of the  
reports, even if it gets them finished more promptly. Someone in the  
press should look into the status of COSEWIC in the SARA era.

fred.
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