Biodiversity Outcomes Framework Explained

Canada's Biodiversity Outcomes Framework^[1] was approved by Ministers responsible for Environment, Forests, Parks, Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Wildlife in October 2006. It has been developed further to the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy,^[2] an implementation measure required under Article 6 of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.^{[3] [4]}

Criticism of the Framework

The Framework has been developed from the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy, which has been criticized as having a tendency to focus on species and to assign less importance to other scales of biodiversity from the genetic to the ecosystem level.^[5]

See also

• Criticisms of the biodiversity paradigm

External links

• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Biodiversity Convention Office
• Environment Canada

Notes and References

1. http://www.cbin.ec.gc.ca/outcomes/default.cfm?lang=e Biodiversity Outcomes Framework
2. http://www.cbin.ec.gc.ca/strategy/default.cfm?lang=e Canadian Biodiversity Strategy
3. http://www.cbd.int/convention/articles.shtml?a=cbd-06 Convention Article 6. General Measures for Conservation and Sustainable Use
4. http://www.cbd.int/nbsap/default.shtml National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)
5. http://www.nesh.ca/jameskay/www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u/jjkay/pubs/bocking/bocking.pdf Celebrating Biodiversity: Adaptive Planning and Biodiversity Conservation