International Conservation Community Adopts Parks CanadaÂ’s Ecological Restoration Framework

This story was filed on September 9, 2012

Jejo, Republic of Korea, September 7, 2012 — The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – the worldÂ’s oldest and largest global environmental network – today released new guidelines on ecological restoration for protected areas which were led by Parks Canada and modelled on CanadaÂ’s own national approach to ecological restoration.

“It’s an honour for Parks Canada to be a key participant in the 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress, and for Canada’s ecological restoration framework to now be recommended as the international approach to ecological restoration for protected areas,” said Alan Latourelle, Parks Canada’s CEO.read more

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