Muskwa-Kechika management area biodiversity conservation and climate change assessment

Download or read book Muskwa-Kechika management area biodiversity conservation and climate change assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The assessment contains a variety of tools to assess the existing network of conservation lands, strengthen conservation measures in light of climate change, plan and evaluate land and resource use proposals within this shifting environment, and gain further public and community understanding of and appreciation for the biodiversity values of the M-KMA. [...] The participants in land use planning in northern BC and the BC government of the day had the foresight to create the M-KMA with the legislative mandate of protecting its wilderness and wildlife. [...] In some2 of the physiographic sub-provinces, portions of which are found within the M-KMA this report we recommend a variety of approaches and tactics, especially to get as much biodiversity as possible through the "big squeeze" of climate change to the end of this century. [...] Within the context of the greater Yellowstone to Yukon region within which the M-KMA sits, the M-KMA offers an increasingly rare i. Maintain the Ecological Integrity of High Conservation Value Lands example of a very large, intact ecosystem with fully-functioning ecological processes and inherent What are the recommended priorities for long term conservation in the M-KMA? [...] The M-KMA is part of the great Canadian Cordillera, lying within the Rocky Mountain use planning in northern BC and the BC government of the day had the foresight to create the M-KMA (eastern system) and Northern and Central Plateaus and Mountains (interior system) physiographic with the legislative mandate of protecting its wilderness and wildlife.