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March 2005 NWT Protected Areas Strategy
Overview
The NWT Protected Areas Strategy (PAS) is a guide for making decisions to protect lands using the best available knowledge. It is an effective community-based tool for advancing culturally and ecologically significant areas to long-term protected status. It envisions a future that safeguards special natural and cultural areas while keeping resource development options open. The goals of the PAS are to:
- protect special natural and cultural areas where development could be permitted when compatible with the values being protected; and
- protect core areas to represent the NWT’s 42 eco-regions where resource-based development and associated infrastructure will not be permitted.
The PAS is a collaborative and flexible partnership. The PAS Implementation Advisory Committee guides the Strategy, and includes representatives from regional Aboriginal organizations, environmental non-government organizations, industry, and the territorial and federal governments.
The eight steps in the PAS process are:
- Identify priority areas of interest.
- Prepare a protected area proposal at the regional level.
- Review and submit the proposal for candidate protected area status.
- Apply interim protection for the candidate area (where necessary).
- Conduct a detailed evaluation of the candidate area, including consultations.
- Seek formal establishment of the protected area.
- Approve and designate the protected area.
- Implement, monitor and review the protected area.
Each of these eight steps requires the involvement and support of the concerned communities. Further details can be found at www.enr.gov.nt.ca/pas/index.htm.
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