Canadian Protected Areas Status Report 2012 to 2015: table of contents

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Table of contents

• Introduction
  • About the report
  • Departments and agencies that contributed to the report
  • Data sources
  • Types of protected areas reported
  • Changes since the last report
• Chapter 1: Extent and Growth of Canada’s Protected Areas
  • Extent and growth
  • Governance of Canada’s protected areas
    • Governance by government
    • Shared governance
    • Private governance
    • Governance by Indigenous peoples and local communities
  • Ecological representativeness
  • International Union for the Conservation of Nature management categories
  • International perspective (2014)
• Chapter 2: Protected Area Planning and Establishment
  • Conservation and protected area targets
  • Protected areas legislation
  • Conservation and protected area strategies
  • Network Planning
  • Intergovernmental collaboration on network and transboundary planning
  • Objectives for protected areas planning
  • Protecting representative areas
  • Conservation of biological diversity
  • Conservation of large, intact or unfragmented areas
  • Efforts to maintain ecological integrity
  • Preserving habitat connectivity
  • Efforts to conserve ecosystem services
  • Protecting freshwater
  • Protected area planning with respect to climate change
  • Availability of information and resources to support protected area design
  • Challenges to protected area planning and establishment
  • Protecting private lands
• Chapter 3: Protected Area Management and Reporting
  • Management effectiveness
  • Management plan development and implementation
  • Challenges to protected area management
  • Monitoring protocols for protected areas
  • Monitoring and managing for ecological integrity
  • Information in support of protected area management
  • Threats to Canada’s protected areas
  • Protected areas reporting
  • Protected area downgrading, downsizing and degazetting
  • Funding and resources for protected areas
  • Assessment of benefits of protected areas
  • Protected areas visitation
• Chapter 4: Indigenous Peoples and Stakeholder Involvement
  • Indigenous participation in protected areas
    • Establishment and management of protected areas
    • Specific designations for Indigenous protected areas
    • Sites of cultural importance
    • Agreements ensuring Indigenous economic and social benefit
  • Local community consultation in protected area management
  • Engagement of resource sectors in protected area planning and management
  • Engagement of non-government bodies or citizen groups
• Chapter 5: Federal, Provincial and Territorial Summaries
  • Alberta
  • British Columbia
  • Manitoba
  • New Brunswick
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Northwest Territories
  • Nova Scotia
  • Nunavut
  • Ontario
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Quebec
  • Saskatchewan
  • Yukon
  • Environment and Climate Change Canada
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  • Parks Canada
• Glossary