sust-mar: Election species list

Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:00:53 -0300 (ADT)
From: Martin Willison <willison@dal.ca>
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From: Martin Willison

Dear Sust-mar reader

Copied below is a list of selected at-risk species in Nova Scotia 
that I have distributed among electoral districts in preparation
for the coming Nova Scotia provincial election.  The list is intended 
as a vehicle to help spark serious consideration of nature conservation
issues in electoral politics.  The list has been reviewed several 
times for suitability.  I have made a more detailed spreadsheet
that includes notes on the species (at-risk category, listing agency,
and threats).  The N.S. political parties will receive the spreadsheet
shortly.  Please use this list to spark debate during the coming
election - with special focus on the species listed for your
electoral district.   The political parties will be asked to ensure
that their candidates are familiar with the conservation issues 
associated with their riding's selected species.  It would be 
unrealistic to expect candidates to be familiar with the entire 
suite of conservation issues - but divided like this it is wholly
reasonable that each should be able to answer the question: "what
will you do as an MLA to ensure that [species x,y] is adequately
conserved?".  There are plentiful resources on the www to find 
information on these species.  In some cases the species is not 
found in the riding to which it is assigned - but the threats are 
found there (consumption, pollution, cottaging, ATVs, etc.). In
most cases the species and the threats are both in the riding.
 

Riding [for 2003 NS election]		Species
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1. Annapolis			southern flying squirrel
2. Antigonish			piping plover
3. Argyle			plymouth gentian
				eastern lilaeopsis
4. Bedford			Barrow's goldeneye
5. Cape Breton Centre		boreal felt lichen
6. Cape Breton North		cod (St. Lawrence pop.)
				prototypus quillwort
7. Cape Breton Nova		bog elfin butterfly
				early hairstreak butterfly			
8. Cape Breton South		yellow lamp mussel
9. Cape Breton West		eskimo curlew
10. Chester St. Margaret's	fin whale
11. Clare			sweet pepperbush
12. Colchester-Musquodoboit	flexuous golden stubble lichen
13. Colchester North		atlantic salmon (Fundy pops.)
14. Cole Harbour		harlequin duck
15. Cole Hbr. Eastern Passage	Sowerby's beaked whale
16. Cumberland North		showy lady's slipper
				mainland NS moose
17. Cumberland South		peregrine falcon
18. Dartmouth East		humpback whale
19. Dartmouth North		harbour porpoise
20. Dartmouth South Portland	squat dusky snail
21. Digby Annapolis		north atlantic right whale
				eastern mountain avens
22. Eastern Shore		american marten
23. Glace Bay			Canada lynx
24. Guysborough Sheet Hbr.	roseate tern
25. Halifax Atlantic		northern bottlenose whale
				lophelia stony coral
26. Halifax Chebucto		Sable Island beetle (endemic)
				Sable Island noctuid moth (endemic)
				Sable Island tussock moth (endemic)
27. Halifax Citadel		Ipswich sparrow (endemic)
28. Halifax Clayton Park	eastern cougar
29. Halifax Fairview		pink coreopsis
30. Halifax Needham		thorny skate
31. Hammonds Plains Sackville	northern ribbonsnake
32. Hants East			wood turtle
33. Hants West			hepatica
				ram's head ladyslipper
34. Inverness			Bicknell's thrush
				sticky false asphodel
35. Kings North			wild leek
36. Kings South			short-eared owl
37. Kings West			yellow ladies-tresses orchid
				slaty skimmer dragonfly
38. Lunenburg			leatherback turtle
39. Lunenburg West		Atlantic (Acadian) whitefish (endemic)
40. Pictou Centre		Atlantic sturgeon
41. Pictou East			gray whale (extirpated)
				Atlantic walrus (extirpated)
42. Pictou West			woodland caribou (extirpated)
43. Preston			monarch butterfly
				Canada warbler
44. Queens			Blanding's turtle
45. Richmond			New Jersey rush
46. Sackville Cobequid		striped bass
47. Shelburne			cusk
				thread-leaved sundew
48. Timberlea Prospect		Atlantic wolffish
				Northern wolffish
49. Truro Bible Hill		maritime shrew (Maritimes endemic)
				Canada violet
50. Victoria The Lakes		Gaspe shrew
				bog horsefly
51. Waverley Fall River B'Bank	golden crest
				Long's bulrush
52. Yarmouth			water pennywort
				blue whale



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