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	1.1	Use ecological planning and management approaches with more emphasis on landscape/waterscape-level planning to integrate economic and social objectives with conservation objectives.
	1.2	Conserve ecosystems and critical habitats to support populations of wild flora and fauna and other wild organisms.
	1.3	Increase research, improve our understanding of the status, genetic diversity and ecological relationships of species and populations to improve ecological planning and management.
	1.4	Ensure that the harvest of wild flora and fauna and other wild organisms is sustainable and minimize adverse impacts of harvesting on non-target species.
	1.5	Re-connect fragmented ecosystems where practical and necessary, providing corridors and protecting habitats for isolated species or populations.
	1.6	Modify or eliminate elements of government policies and programs that create unintentional adverse impacts on wild flora and fauna and other wild organisms on private and public property.
	1.7	Strengthen measures to reduce and eliminate the release of substances, or quantities of substances, that are harmful to ecosystem, species and genetic resources.
	1.8	Ensure that both economic and ecological factors are considered in designating pests and in implementing pest management strategies.
	1.9	Develop indicators to monitor trends and support the management of wild populations, species, habitats and ecosystems.
	1.10	Maintain or improve measures that prevent in situ populations from becoming jeopardized by specimen collecting for ex situ conservation and other purposes.
	1.11	Foster the participation of non-government ex situ conservation experts and institutions in in situ conservation efforts, and improve the participation of government agencies in non-government ex situ conservation efforts.
	1.12	Implement mechanisms to conserve and use in a sustainable manner transboundary native wild populations, species, habitats and ecosystems in cooperation with other countries and organizations.
	1.13	Make every effort to complete Canada's networks of protected areas representative of land-based natural regions and accelerate the protection of areas that are representative of marine natural regions.
	1.14	Use open and meaningful public and stakeholder participation processes and sound scientific information and traditional knowldge to ensure that social, economical, cultural and ecological factors are considered in the establishment of protected areas.
	1.15	Use interim protection measures to ensure that candidate protected areas are not compromised by development.
	1.16	Develop comprehensive criteria for determining priority sites for designation as protected areas.
	1.17	Prepare and implement, in consultation with stakeholders, legislation and policies, inventories, plans, guidelines, monitoring programs to support the establishment and management of protected areas.
	1.18	Manage, in consultation with regional governments, indigenous communities and interested stakeholders, human activities in and around protected areas to minimize adverse impacts on protected area biodiversity and to maintain connectivity.
	1.19	Support and promote the development of agreements between governments and local and indigenous communities, property owners and/or private corporations for the voluntary allocation of land for conservation purposes.
	1.20	Use a variety of mechanisms, including easements and covenants, to secure relatively intact ecosystems within intensively developed areas, and restore or rehabilitate them if necessary and practical.
	1.21	Federal, provincial and territorial governments will review their current legislation to determine if improvements are required in order to protect species-at-risk and their habitats, determine the benefits and costs of a more harmonized legislative appropriate and practical.
	1.22	Federal, provincial, territorial governments will work towards harmonizing methodologies to designate species-at-risk.
	1.23	Determine the ecological requirements of species-at-risk and develop, implement and evaluate the success of recovery plans for species that are extirpated, endangered, or threatened, where practical and necessary. Consider the recovery of vulnerable species on a case-by-case basis.
	1.24	Consider multi-species/habitat recovery plans for areas that contain a number of species-at-risk.
	1.25	Encourage the involvement of ex situ facilities and expertise in the recovery of species-at-risk.
	1.26	Federal, provincil and territorial governments will continue to participate and support the COSEWIC, RENEW, and new programs.
	1.27	Expand the mandate of COSEWIC and RENEW to encompass further taxonomic groups adding groups incrementally.
	1.28	Enhance participation of urban and regional governments, local and indigenous communities and landowners in species recovery projects from early planning through implementation.
	1.29	Support and promote international efforts to recover species-at-risk by: participating in mechanisms that regulate or control trade in species-at-risk; supporting the recovery of migratory and transboundary species-at-risk; and participating in other international efforts, such as the IUCN Species Survival Commission.
	1.30	Using objective criteria to select sites for restoration and rehabilitation, including the habitat requirements of species-at-risk, develop and implement restoration or rehabilitation plans for degraded ecosystems, where practical and necessary.
	1.31	Develop improved approaches and technologies for ecosystem restoration and rehabilitation, evaluating the potential impacts of programs on ecosystems and species to ensure that desired outcomes are achievable without causing negative impacts.
	1.32	Modify, develop and implement government policies and programs to ensure that they support the sustainable use of biological resources, water, air and other essential resources and the long-term integrity of supporting ecosystems.
	1.33	Improve methods and technologies that support the sustainable use of biological resources and eliminate or minimize adverse impacts on biodiversity resulting from resource use.
	1.34	Develop and implement education and training programs for policy-makers, property owners, lease operators, resource managers and otheres involved in the management, development and use of biological resources, to ensure that they have access to the best available information, methods and technologies.
	1.35	Develop and improve methods of monitoring ecosystems and biological resources to support the sustainable use of these resources.
	1.36	As possible, provide information to assist consumers in understanding the impacts and implications of their decisions and to promote the sustainable use of biological resources and ecosystems.
	1.37	Improve the effectiveness of public participation in developing policies for the use of biological resources using a variety of measures, such as integrated decision-making processes and conflict resolution mechanisms.
	1.38	Develop linkages and ensure coordination between the implementation processes for the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy and other related national initiatives.
	1.39	Assess current and proposed major government agricultural policies and programs to ensure that ecological, economic, social and cultural objectives are considered.
	1.40	Maintain, adjust or develop economic incentives that promote the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable use of biological resources on agricultural lands.
	1.41	Inventory and evaluate genes, populations, species and ecosystems to ensure the conservation of natural control systems and the identification of species for use as biocontrol agents.
	1.42	Develop and use agricultural pest-control products and integrated pest management approaches to minimize negative impacts on non-target ecosystems and those species approaching or already at risk.
	1.43	Conserve biological resources that are essential to agriculture, including domesticated animals, plants and microbial germplasm, and their wild relatives, with priority given to genetic material that is most at risk.
	1.44	Develop and implement programs that promote and facilitate the co-existence of wild flora and fauna and other wild organisms and their habitats in agricultural landscapes.
	1.45a	Through research, training and technology transfer, facilitate the further adoption of environmentally sustainable farm practices, including those that reduce soil erosion, surface and ground water contamination and air pollution.
	1.45b	Through research, training and technology transfer, facilitate the further adoption of environmentally sustainable farm practices, including those that lead to the identification of productive soil types in relation to specific crop requirements.
	1.46	Encourage agricultural producers to develop farm management plans that support conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of biological resources.
	1.47	Facilitate the sharing of experiences and expertise among farmers to promote management practices that favour the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of biological resources.
	1.48	Maintain or develop policies or programs that conserve biodiversity by supporting the sustainable use of native grasslands.
	1.49	Identify and conserve areas that support native species and communities or could contribute to systems of protected areas, especially in intensively developed areas.
	1.50a	Maintain or develop in situ and ex situ conservation mechanisms to support the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources essential to agriculture by determining and acting upon regional, provincial, territorial, national and international priorities for the conservation of biological resources, research and training, and the establishment of facilities.
	1.50b	Maintain or develop in situ and ex situ conservation mechanisms to support the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources essential to agriculture by continuing to support existing federal, provincial, territorial, regional and international ex situ institutions.
	1.51	Assess current & proposed major government aquatic resource policies and programs to ensure that ecological, economic, social and cultural objectives are considered.
	1.52	Use objective criteria to select sites for restoration and rehabilitation, and restore or rehabilitate degraded aquatic ecosystems where practical.
	1.53	Implement biological and ecological inventory, monitoring programs and classification systems to determine appropriate biodiversity conservation measures and provide a framework for managing aquatic resources on a sustainable basis.
	1.54	Increase our understanding of the structure, function and composition of aquatic ecosystems to enhance conservation and management practices.
	1.55	Enhance efforts to conserve aquatic biodiversity by protecting: species and ecosystems at risk, endemic species, vulnerable spawning areas and unique and representative ecosystems.
	1.56	Establish reserves to conserve aquatic biodiversity and contribute to networks of national and international protected areas.
	1.57	Develop training programs to promote the use of equipment and harvesting procedures that eliminate, or reduce to acceptable levels, the adverse impacts on populations, species, habitats and ecosystems, including the capture of undersized fish, incidental catch, and habitat destruction.
	1.58	Reduce to acceptable levels, or eliminate, adverse impacts of species introductions on aquatic biodiversity resulting from aquaculture projects, fisheries enhancement programs and interbasin transfers of water and organisms.
	1.59	Investigate the use of alternative aquatic resource management mechanisms to enhance the integration of social, cultural, economic and ecological objectives.
	1.60	Participate in international fisheries conservation efforts to develop and encourage the implementation of ecological management approaches, and to develop sustainable use agreements.
	1.61a	Conserve ocean-based fisheries resources by taking effective action to address foreign overfishing outside Canada's 200 mile limit.
	1.61b	Conserve ocean-based fisheries resources by improving the enforcement of existing rules within the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization.
	1.61c	Conserve ocean-based fisheries resources by enhancing international collaboration in the development of conservation/sustainable use policies by building on discussions at the United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks.
	1.62	Support the development of international agreements to encourage the development of biological reference points in fisheries management that provide a basis for the conservation and sustainable use of harvested species.
	1.63	Enhance communication with those who possess traditional knowledge to improve information sharing, and to promote the conservation of aquatic biodiversity and the sustainable use of aquatic biological resources.
	1.64	Maintain or develop in situ and ex situ mechanisms to support the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of aquatic biological resources.
	1.65	Assess current and proposed major government forest policies and programs to ensure that ecological, economic, social and cultural objectives have been considered.
	1.66	Increase our understanding of forest biodiversity by enhancing ecological site classification systems and the inventory and monitoring of commercial and non-commercial species, soil, soil biota, climate and other biophysical characteristics.
	1.67	Improve our understanding of forest ecological functions by determining the benefits of ecological services provided by forest ecosystems, monitoring the ecological responses of forests to resource management practices, and by carrying out other activities.
	1.68	Eliminate or reduce to acceptable levels, the adverse impacts of forest management practices on watersheds, soils, adjacent ecosystems and species.
	1.69	Continue to develop and implement improved forest management practices that provide for the sustainable use of forests while maintaining the regional forest mosaic. Use practices that are as consistant as is practical with natural disturbance regimes, patterns and processes.
	1.70	Provide improved training opportunities for forest scientists, managers and operators to increase their understanding of forest ecosystems.
	1.71	Use integrated pest management approaches that eliminate or reduce to acceptable levels, adverse impacts on non-target species and ecosystems.
	1.72	Inventory and evaluate forest ecosystems and species to ensure the conservation of natural biological control systems, and to identify species for use as biocontrol agents.
	1.73	Develop and implement programs to conserve the genetic diversity of tree species in in situ conditions.
	1.74	Establish and maintain forest seed and clonal gene banks to conserve the genetic diversity of tree species.
	1.75	Allow fire, disease, succession and natural forest regeneration to maintain biodiversity, where they are compatible with forestry and other land use objectives, and where natural regeneration can be effective.
	1.76	In consultation with regional and urban governments, landowners and lease holders, identify and correct policies that discourage the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of forest biological resources on private lands and leased crown lands.
	1.77	Where practical, restore or rehabilitate degraded forest ecosystems that will make a significant contribution to conserving biodiversity.
	1.78	Establish protected areas to conserve representative and critical forest ecosystems as part of an overall network of protected areas.
	1.79	Develop and implement forest management plans and codes of practice to promote the sustainable use of forest ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity.
	1.80	Support research, management and policies that assess and promote new uses of timber and non-timber products from forests to increase the economic return from forest ecosystems, while conserving biodiversity.
	1.81	Take all necessary steps to prevent the introduction of harmful alien organisms and eliminate or reduce their adverse effect to acceptable levels.
	1.82	Promote research into methods and approaches that improve our ability to assess whether or not alien organisms will have an adverse impact on biodiversity.
	1.83a	Prevent the introduction of potentially harmful living modified organisms by ensuring the there is adequate legislation and enforcement to control introductions or escapes of harmful living modified organisms, and improving preventative mechanisms such as screening standards and risk assessment procedures.
	1.83b	Prevent the introduction of potentially harmful living modified organisms by developing national and international database capacities that enable Canada to identify and anticipate the introduction of potentially harmful living modified organisms.
	1.84	Promote research into methods and approaches that improve our ability to assess whether or not living modified organisms will have an adverse impact on biodiversity.
	1.85	Develop linkages in the implementation processes for the Conventions on Biological Diversity and Climate Change and other atmospheric agreements and programs.
	1.86	Maintain and enhance bioclimatic monitoring to track the effects of atmospheric changes on ecosystems, species and genetic diversity.
	1.87	Increase coordination among national programs to determine potential impacts on biodiversity from past, present and future atmospheric changes.
	1.88	Apply multi-disciplinary research to investigate relationships between atmospheric changes and changes in biodiversity.
	1.89	Implement measures to eliminate or reduce human-caused atmospheric changes that adversely affect biodiversity.
	1.90	Use a variety of planning and approval mechanisms that provide for meaningful public and stakeholder participation to prevent or reduce negative impacts on biodiversity that may arise from human settlement activities.
	1.91	Develop and implement educational and incentive programs to encourage biodiversity conservation on private lands.
	1.92	Promote the acceptance of the requirements of the Convention within the urban development sector through the voluntary establishment of codes of environmental management and the provision of relevant biodiversity education material.
	1.93	Determine and mitigate, where practical, incremental and cumulative impacts of human activities on ecosystems and biological resources.
	1.94	Support research on ecological carrying capacities and the way that changes in biodiversity, human population density, land and resource development and resource consumption patterns and rates affect one another.
	1.95	Reduce resource consumption by promoting initiatives based on the "three R's" - reduce, reuse and recycle - and by increasing awareness of the value of biodiversity and the lifestyle choices that cause its decline.
	1.96	Work through appropriate national and international organizations to improve dialogue and communication and to encourage research on the linkages among population, social issues, consumption and production of resources and ecological carrying capacity in order to formulate sustainable development policies.
	2.1	Focus research to improve policy development and to integrate multiple land and resource-use objectives.
	2.2	Focus research to increase our understanding of ecosystems and our ability to manage human use of ecosystems.
	2.3	Identify mechanisms to use traditional knowledge, innovations and practices with the involvement of the holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices, and encourage the equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of such knowledge, innovations and practices.
	2.4	Improve biophysical inventories at ecosystem, species and genetic levels.
	2.5	Enable agencies and individuals to conduct biological and biophysical inventories by developing ways to collectively identify funding sources and determine priorities for inventories; and ensuring that there is sufficient expertise available to conduct inventories.
	2.6	Support efforts to improve the reliability and cost-effectiveness of biological inventory methodologies and technologies.
	2.7	Maintain the capacity of museums and other institutions to scientifically describe, classify and store collected specimens, as well as maintain their ability to effectively disseminate data and information.
	2.8	Continue to establish networks of Conservation Data Centres or Natural Heritage Centres to develop and harmonize data bases for the conservation of vulnerable, threatened and endangered species and ecosystems.
	2.9	Improve inventories to determine the genetic diversity of domesticated and non-domesticated biological resources to maximize the conservation and economic use of genetic resources.
	2.10	Collaborate with other countries to inventory populations and habitats of transboundary species, particularly those that are at risk.
	2.11	Investigate and implement means to enhance the collection, sharing, analysis, scope and distribution of data and information required to conserve biodiversity and sustainably use biological resources.
	2.12	Promote the continuing development of information management systems such as Geographic Information Systems and other technologies that facilitate the rapid analysis and distribution of biological and biophysical data and information.
	2.13	Work towards ensuring that data and information generated by publicly-funded studies are made available to potential users through appropriate sharing arrangements.
	2.14	Participate in the development and maintenance of appropriate international data bases.
	2.15	Design and implement improved ecological planning and management at the landscape/waterscape level to conserve biodiversity and use biological resources in a sustainable manner.
	2.16	Improve ecological planning to assist in the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of biological resources, especially in or near sensitive aquatic areas, in areas that support populations of endemic, threatened or endangered species, and in areas that are undergoing significant changes resulting from human activity and development.
	2.17	Use ecological or land-use planning to help identify and establish protected areas and to ensure that the ecological integrity of established protected areas is maintained.
	2.18	Strengthen planning processes to work toward the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of biological resources of internationally-shared ecosystems and trans-boundary rivers and aquatic ecosystems.
	2.19	Strengthen international planning efforts and other processes to eliminate or reduce adverse impacts on biodiversity and the sustainable use of biological resources, resulting from activities in other countries, with special consideration placed on migratory species, aquatic ecosystems and airborne pollutants.
	2.20	Use environmental assessments to determine potential impacts of developments on ecosystem, species and genetic resources and to recommend appropriate ways to avoid or reduce them to acceptable levels.
	2.21	Continue to examine and develop ways to harmonize environmental assessments nationally and internationally, where appropriate.
	2.22	Enhance efforts to determine and eliminate or reduce to acceptable levels, cumulative environmental effects that result from human activities on ecosystems, species and genetic diversity. This includes developing early-warning indicators and working towards incorporating cumulative environmental effects into relevant national and international agreements.
	2.23	In cooperation with other countries, maintain or develop environmental disaster prevention plans, procedures and other measures, and respond to events that pose grave and imminent risk to national, international and transboundary biodiversity.
	2.24	Maintain or develop arrangements to notify and respond with appropriate action to events originating in Canada that could significantly affect the biodiversity of other countries.
	2.25	Improve coordination and efficiency of training and information programs by strengthening relationships among educational institutions, government agencies, local and indigenous communities, private property owners, non-government organizations, business and industry.
	2.26	Strengthen training programs in: ecological management, sustainable use inventory methodologies, monitoring, data management, multi-disciplinary research, management of protected areas, environmental education, environmental assessment and emergency planning.
	2.27	Develop and implement monitoring programs to better understand the functional linkages in ecosystems; evaluate the success or failure of conservation and sustainable use policies and programs; and better integrate the monitoring of biological and non-biological parameters.
	2.28	Develop and use biodiversity indicators that are meaningful, scientifically defensible, practical and compatible with regional, provincial, territorial, national and international programs.
	2.29	Identify appropriate locations to establish base monitoring sites.
	2.30	Target monitoring programs on ecosystems, species and populations that are currently under the most stress.
	2.31	Develop and implement measures to monitor the ex situ collection of biological resources.
	2.32	Use volunteers in monitoring programs where appropriate and practical.
	3.1a	Develop and deliver effective biodiversity education and awareness programs by evaluating and monitoring the level of public understanding and knowledge regarding biodiversity conservation and the sustainable use of biological resources in order to design and target effective education and awareness programs.
	3.1b	Develop and deliver effective biodiversity education and awareness programs by integrating themes and messages about biodiversity conservation and the sustainable use of biological resources into the formal educational curriculum.
	3.1c	Develop and deliver effective biodiversity education and awareness programs by increasing biodiversity conservation and the sustainable use of biological resources messages by building on existing interpretive programs in national and provincial parks and other protected areas, and at libraries, museums, zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens.
	3.1d	Develop and deliver effective biodiversity education and awareness programs by strengthening coordination among educational institutions, government departments, museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, businesses, conservations groups and other organizations.
	3.2	Enhance opportunities for professional development for those involved in teaching environmental education.
	3.3	Create educational material that emphasizes measures that can be taken to prevent or reduce impacts on ecosystems and biological resources.
	3.4	Promote public awareness of biodiversity issues, conservation and sustainable use requirements and changes in the state of biodiversity and improvements in resource management practices through periodic reports, fact sheets, electronic information systems and other communication materials and methods.
	4.1	Maintain or develop and use appropriate social/economic policies and incentives as a means of promoting the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of biological resources and new sustainable uses of biological resources.
	4.2	Enhance our capability to assign a value to biodiversity, and increase efforts to construct a natural resources account that considers ecosystem degradation, loss of species and genetic diversity and resource depletion, and complements standard national income accounts.
	4.3	Investigate the impact of proposed biodiversity conservation policies and programs on economic activities in order to develop effective conservation measures that enhance positive impacts and minimize negative impacts on the economy.
	4.4	Determine and make available to policy-makers the estimated costs associated with unsustainable use of biological resources, including the costs of ecosystem degradation and the depletion of species and populations.
	4.5	Ensure that economic, trade, conservation and sustainable resource-use laws and policies are mutually supportive.
	4.6	Encourage the participation of property owners and resource developers in biodiversity conservation programs.
	4.7	Jurisdictions will examine their current legislative regimes with respect to the goals of this Strategy, and take the necessary and practical steps towards creating an improved legislative framework that supports the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of biological resources.
	4.8	Jurisdictions will determine whether harmonization among Canadian jurisdictions and other countries of biodiversity-related legislation is necessary to reduce duplication and fill gaps and work towards harmonization where appropriate and practical.
	5.1	Participate in international efforts to coordinate and enhance activities related to the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of biological resources.
	5.2	Support the implementation of the Convention in developing countries by providing assistance, in particular through the Global Environment Facility; and cooperating with developing countries to improve their capacities to plan and implement biodiversity conservation policies, strategies and plans and to use biological resources in a sustainable manner.
	5.3	Explore mechanisms to facilitate the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
	5.4	Cooperate with the international community to explore mechanisms to encourage the private sector, government, indigenous communities, non-government organizations and communities to share benefits derived from using genetic resources provided by other countries.
	5.5	Encourage the participation of stakeholders, including non-government organizations, the private sector, and indigenous communities, in international efforts to implement the Convention.
	5.6	Incorporate biodiversity conservation and the sustainable use of biological resources into the criteria for choosing, designing, and evaluating development assistance projects.
	6.1	Strengthen linkages at the Ministerial level to oversee the implementation and monitoring of the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy.
	6.2	Report within one year after the Ministerial endorsement of the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy on policies, programs, strategies and actions that are underway or will be undertaken to implement the Strategy, and subsequently report publicly on progress in implementing the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy at a frequency to be determined.
	6.3	Within each jurisdiction, maintain or develop mechanisms to provide opportunities for meaningful participation of regional and urban governments, local and indigenous communities, interested individuals and groups, business interests, and the scientific community in implementing the Strategy.
	6.4	Coordinate elements of the Strategy that require national participation in order to help develop international positions on biodiversity matters and oversee the development of national and international progress reports.
	6.5	Ensure that there are mechanisms in place that permit and encourage non-government organizations and members of the public to participate in the implementation of the Strategy and the development of international biodiversity agreements.
	6.6	Report periodically to Canadians and the international community on the status of Canada's biodiversity.
	6.7	Challenge and invite all Canadians to contribute toward achieving the goals of the Strategy and take action to conserve biodiversity and to use biological resources in a sustainable manner.
	6.8	Explore mechanisms to provide opportunities for participation of indigenous communities in implementing the Strategy through a variety of mechanisms such as resource management agreements, management boards, model forest programs and other means.
	7.1	Indigenous communities develop an approach to implementing the Convention with a view to reflecting distinct indigenous values, social networks, traditional economies and cultures.
	7.1a	Indigenous communities develop an approach to implementing the Convention with a view to reflecting distinct indigenous values, social networks, traditional economies and cultures by building on the current networking process of meetings, workshops and other consultation methods that enable indigenous communities to determine how they will contribute to the implementation of the Biodiversity Convention.
	7.1b	Indigenous communities develop an approach to implementing the Convention with a view to reflecting distinct indigenous values, social networks, traditional economies and cultures by demonstrating the role of indigenous knowledge and management in the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and establishing opportunities for indigenous communities to share their knowledge of biodiversity and the management of biological resources with non-indigenous communities.
	7.1c	Indigenous communities develop an approach to implementing the Convention with a view to reflecting distinct indigenous values, social networks, traditional economies and cultures by leading the development of community-based regimes designed to preserve traditional indigenous knowledge, innovations and practices and recognizing their potential economic, scientific and cultural values.
	7.1d	Indigenous communities develop an approach to implementing the Convention with a view to reflecting distinct indigenous values, social networks, traditional economies and cultures by establishing linkages with federal, provincial and territorial agencies responsible for implementing the Convention.
	7.1e	Indigenous communities develop an approach to implementing the Convention with a view to reflecting distinct indigenous values, social networks, traditional economies and cultures by facilitating the maintenance of indigenous social and cultural traditions that support the communication of traditional knowledge and resource use methods among generations and communities.
	7.2	Encourage the development of an indigenous community analysis of the Convention with reference to "knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous communities" by taking into account issues of intellectual property rights and the use of genetic resources.
	7.3	Examine ways in which indigenous groups can share their knowledge and experience, and develop joint programs with indigenous groups inside and outside Canada.