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The Archive is providing background documentation on the NWT Biodiversity Action Plan.

Background documentation
 

Workshop Report – Gap/Overlap Analysis   

By:           GNWT - Wildlife Division

Date:         February 2005

Distribution: Team

Formats:      .doc (177 KB)

Bookmark:     Analysis workshop report

Primary documentation

United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity 

The CBS is the Canadian response to the Convention of Biological Diversity - one of the umbrella Conversion on sustainable development and biodiversity in the World. 

By:     United Nations 

Date:          Signed in 1992 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Distribution: Public
Formats:      NET
Bookmark:     http://www.biodiv.org/convention/articles.asp

Canadian Biodiversity Strategy (CBS)

The NWT Biodiversity Action Plan is based in a large part on the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy (CBS).

By:     Canadian Biodiversity Working Group 

Date:          November 1994 (Signed in 1995)
Distribution: Public
Formats:      NET
Bookmark:

http://www.eman-rese.ca/eman/reports/publications/rt_biostrat/intro.html

or a printable version at: http://www.cbin.ec.gc.ca/cbin/HTML/en/Document/CBs_e.pdf

Background documentation

Next Steps  - Presentation towards Report 2 and beyond  

This presentation was made to the NWT Biodiversity Team in December 2004 (and revised in February 2005) to provide some background on how each report being developed under NWT Biodiversity Action Plan fit together into a bigger planning and reviewing process.  The Presentation also provided the Team with options for more products in the long-term. This document explains the steps beyond developing the Recommendation report of the Action plan (Report 2) .

By:           GNWT - Wildlife Division
Date:         February 2005
Distribution: Team
Formats:      .ppt (268 KB)
Bookmark:     NWT BAP report 2 steps

Second Steps - Package Action Plan  

The NWT Biodiversity Team is working towards Report 2 of the NWT Biodiversity Action Plan. This document, revised after a meeting of the Team in December 2004, explains the steps towards the publication of report 2, including a short description of how the Team will perform a gap and overlap analysis. 

By:           GNWT - Wildlife Division
Date:         January 2005
Distribution: Team
Formats:      .doc (181 KB)
Bookmark:     Package Action Plan - Second steps 2004.doc

First Steps - Package Action Plan 

Members to the Biodiversity Team are working together to make a NWT Biodiversity Action Plan, as opposed to just GNWT making a GNWT plan...This document explains the first steps toward our developing the Action plan.

By:           GNWT - Wildlife and Fisheries Division
Date:         May 2001
Distribution: Team
Formats:      .doc (65 KB)
Bookmark:     Package Action Plan - draft May 2001short.doc

NWT Action Plan v2  - general background 

This slide presentation provide a general overview of the process used so far to draft a NWT Biodiversity Action Plan.

By:           GNWT - Wildlife and Fisheries Division
Last updated: 2002
Distribution: Team
Formats:      .ppt (126 KB)
Bookmark:     NWT Action Plan v2.ppt

NWT Action Plan - Matrix concept

This slide presentation provide a general overview of the Matrix concept used so far to list biodiversity actions in the NWT. 

By:           GNWT - Wildlife and Fisheries Division
Date:         October 2001
Distribution: Team
Formats:      .ppt (126 KB)
Bookmark:     NWT Action Plan database - Revised1 .ppt

Guide to Developing a Biodiversity Strategy from a Sustainable Development Perspective

This Guide was used to draft the Matrix concept.  This Guide is available on the Internet.  

By:     Jacques Prescott, Benoît Gauthier,

and Jonas Nagahuedi Mbongu Sodi

Institut de l’énergie et de l’environnement

de la Francophonie (IEPF)

Ministère de l’Environnement du Québec

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Date:          September 2000
Distribution: Public
Formats:      NET
Bookmark:     http://www.undp.org/

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Date:         Current
Distribution: Freeware
Formats:      INT
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