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To: Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) From: Martin Willison <willison@dal.ca> Tip: if your message doesn't reach sust-mar, you probably sent it with html coding. Use your "Format" pull-down menu to switch to plain text format. ____________________________________________________________________________ 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 _________________________________________________________ 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 -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- FIRE INVESTIGATORS LOOK INTO THREATS The investigation into last week's forest fire in a protected area of Nova Scotia has officials looking into threats made nearly two years ago. FULL STORY http://novascotia.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=ns_tobeathreat20030528 LUMBER YARDS FEAR LOSS OF EXPORT EXEMPTION A spokesperson for Maritime lumber producers is warning the federal government not to tamper with the region's historic exemption on lumber duties. FULL STORY http://novascotia.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=ns_lumberreax20030528 WARS ON TERROR DIMINISH HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS The wars on terror have diverted attention from other important human rights issues around the world, says a new report from Amnesty International. FULL STORY: http://cbc.ca/stories/2003/05/28/amnesty_report030528 CHRé TIEN TALKS ABOUT DIFFERENCES WITH BUSH A candid Prime Minister Jean Chré tien told reporters on a flight to Europe Tuesday that he and U.S. President George Bush have many opposing views. FULL STORY: http://cbc.ca/stories/2003/05/27/chretien_athens030527 © Canadian Broadcasting Corporation * Long-range migrant birds 'in peril' * Climate changes may be disastrous for birds that migrate large distances to and from Europe - but beneficial to "short-haul" species. Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/2941370.stm Copyright BBC 2003 GREENWASHING COASTAL DEVELOPMENT Andrew Christie, Faultline Magazine A new development in Los Angeles has destroyed the last of the area's salt water wetlands, and shows how environmental groups can be coopted by industry. *In EnviroHealth: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/ ____________________________________________________________________________ If a friend forwarded this email to you, please consider joining sust-mar yourself. Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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