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The Archive is providing background documentation on the NWT Biodiversity Action Plan. GNWT Wildlife Documents are located below.


Background documentation

Workshop Report – Gap/Overlap Analysis: This report summarizes findings of a NWT Biodiversity Team workshop, where the draft tools were used to perform a review of our biodiversity actions within each core theme of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The Tools were tested for the first time at this workshop in February 2005, and were also used during subsequent Teamwork using e-mails and the Internet.

By: GNWT - Wildlife Division
Date: February 2005
Distribution: Team


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


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

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

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

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

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

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) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

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

 
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