sust-mar: Election species list - Re: Piping Plover

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From: Anna McCarron <amcarron@istar.ca>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 22:00:57 -0400
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Hello all;

I would like to add to Martin's excellent proposal to ask your political
district candidates; "what will you do as an MLA to ensure that [species
x,y] is adequately conserved?".

With respect to Piping Plovers, I have included districts which were not
mentioned on Martin's list, besides Antigonish, where this endangered
species also nests:

Victoria
Pictou East
Eastern Shore
Lunenburg
Lunenburg West
Queens
Shelburne

I invite you to go a step further and ask your district candidates;
"Are you willing to protect the Piping Plover and its habitat by actively
promoting the restriction of ATVs from beaches in this district?" 

Already this season, at least two Piping Plover nests have been destroyed
because of ATVs on one beach in Shelburne County. Two nests were abandoned
because of vehicles racing back and forth in front of the nests. The
previous day, three out of four eggs in one of the nests was crushed under
the wheels of an ATV. Despite this, the Piping Plovers cleaned the egg
shells out of the nest and resumed incubating the remaining egg. This was
witnessed by the South Shore Piping Plover Monitor.
Sadly, the ATVs returned the following day and despite signs and fencing
disturbed the birds to the point that they abandoned both nests.

If you would like more information as to the specific areas of concern or if
you have any other questions, please contact me.

Let's campaign for conservation!

Anna

Anna McCarron
phone / fax: (902) 861-3624

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From: Martin Willison

Dear NatureNS 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 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 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 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

Anna McCarron
19 Thompson Drive
Wellington, NS B2T 1J4
phone / fax: (902) 861-3624
Anna McCarron
19 Thompson Drive
Wellington, NS B2T 1J4
phone / fax: (902) 861-3624

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