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Index of Subjects --001a11c3d8646cfab704f7b6bbbb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks for this Andy...any way we can pester to influence the bat listing? Helene Helene Van Doninck DVM Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre Join us on May 10 for our Sixth Annual Fundraising Concert and Silent Auction <http://cwrc.net/cms/wp/?page_id=3D785> RR#1 Brookfield NS B0N1C0 902-893-0253 helene.birdvet@gmail.com <birdvet@hotmail.com> www.cwrc.net Find us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cobequid-Wildlife-Rehabi= litation-Centre/134671693239334> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/CobequiWildlife> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Andrew Horn <aghorn@dal.ca> wrote: > Hi Dusan et al., > > Marty=E2=80=99s the chair of COSEWIC. The CBC piece got it right. There= =E2=80=99s various > things that aren=E2=80=99t ideal with Canada=E2=80=99s Species at Risk Ac= t (SARA), but one > good thing is that the assessment of a species=E2=80=99 populations statu= s (done by > COSEWIC using population size, distribution, trends, threats, etc) is kep= t > separate from its listing (done by the government, which takes not just t= he > status assessment but also economic and social factors into account). > > As it happens, COSEWIC is meeting in Halifax next week. Anyone who wants > to sit in as an observer and see the assessments in action can email Mart= y ( > mleonard@dal.ca). I think I know the problems Fred refers to, but overall > the people on the committee are extremely good and dedicated, and the > quality of the status reports that they base their decisions on (the > reports that summarize all the available info on population size, trends, > threats, etc) have actually improved since SARA. > > I reckon the weaker links in SARA are at the listing stage (e.g., still n= o > listing of our bats years after COSEWIC=E2=80=99s emergency assessment) a= nd (as > many environmental groups have noted) the recovery stage (which is a > totally separate process again =E2=80=94 and overwhelmed and poorly funde= d). > > Full disclosure: I=E2=80=99ve written several status reports and, of cour= se, my > spouse just happens to be chair of COSEWIC. > > Cheers, > Andy Horn > > On Apr 23, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote= : > > > Halifax's (and Dalhousie's) own Dr. Marty Leonard was on CBC TV's The > National last night, and she seemed to be OK with the recent > reclassification of the status of humpback whales. Unfortunately the > interview was far, far too short. What is her exact position with COSEWIC= ? > Andy? > > Dusan Soudek > > > > > > > On April 23, 2014 at 9:13 AM Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 2014-04-23, at 6:38 AM, Richard Stern wrote: > > > > > > > >> From The Globe and Mail: > > > >> > http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/why-is-the-humpbac= k-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 Ac= t > > > 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 th= e > > > 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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > > > Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm > > > Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > > > Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > > > South Nation Basin Art & Science Book > > > http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm > > > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > > > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > > > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > --001a11c3d8646cfab704f7b6bbbb Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Thanks for this Andy...any way we can pester to influ= ence the bat listing?<br><br></div>Helene<br></div><div class=3D"gmail_extr= a"><br clear=3D"all"><div><div dir=3D"ltr">Helene Van Doninck DVM<br>Cobequ= id Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre<br> Join us on May 10 for our <a href=3D"http://cwrc.net/cms/wp/?page_id=3D785"= target=3D"_blank">Sixth Annual Fundraising Concert and Silent Auction</a><= br>RR#1 Brookfield NS B0N1C0<br>902-893-0253<br><a href=3D"mailto:birdvet@h= otmail.com" target=3D"_blank">helene.birdvet@gmail.com</a><br> www.cwrc.net<div><div= >Find us on <a href=3D"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cobequid-Wildlife-Reh= abilitation-Centre/134671693239334" target=3D"_blank">Facebook</a>=C2=A0and= <a href=3D"https://twitter.com/CobequiWildlife" target=3D"_blank">Twitter<= /a></div> </div></div></div> <br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Andrew= Horn <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:aghorn@dal.ca" target=3D"_bla= nk">aghorn@dal.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote= " style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi Dusan et al.,<br> <br> Marty=E2=80=99s the chair of COSEWIC. The CBC piece got it right. There=E2= =80=99s various things that aren=E2=80=99t ideal with Canada=E2=80=99s Spec= ies at Risk Act (SARA), but one good thing is that the assessment of a spec= ies=E2=80=99 populations status (done by COSEWIC using po