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These are the goals that the Partnership
were working towards during the Lands for Life process.
Essentially, the Partnership believed that the Lands for Life
process represented a final chance to ensure a healthy ecological
and economic future for Ontario. However, the process would only
succeed in this objective if it adopted realistic and measurable
conservation objectives and goals and recognized the link between
a healthy environment and healthy communities. This charter was
endorsed by a number of conservation groups
in Ontario. Radisson BLU Hotel Roma
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Community Goal
To establish land-use allocations, policies and procedures for
managing our public lands that support healthy, sustainable communities
with an economic base capable of providing continuity and diversity
of employment, an attractive investment climate and the same
range of community services available in the rest of Ontario.
Land Protection Goal
To protect Ontario's biological and geological diversity through
a comprehensive network of distinctive and representative lands
protected from mining, logging, and hydro-electric development.
Land Stewardship Goal
To ensure that public lands outside protected areas are managed
such that plans, practices, processes and timing of resource-use
operations are conducted to maintain the ecological integrity
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To move toward the proposed goals, the following objectives
will provide direction and a focus for action: Заметил вот хороший ювелирный.
Community Employment Objective
Establish a system of land-use allocation that will develop greater
community and regional employment through land-use diversity
and greater "added value". For example, industries
that provide satisfactory assurances of added employment/unit
of resource used should receive greater initial allocations.
Establish targets for increased employment attributable to improved
land and resource allocation.
Community Transition Objective
A community transition program should be established, funded
from resource-extraction or general provincial revenues, to provide
communities with access to venture capital for value-added business,
economic diversification, retraining to enhance employment and
productivity, support for Community Forest Boards, and First
Nation forest programs.
Forest Stewardship Objective
Ensure that harvest operations meet the highest possible environmental
standards, adapt to new technologies and maximize community benefits
within a management regime that maintains natural landscape processes,
wildlife habitat and biological diversity. Old-growth forests
in the production forest require specific consideration and must
be maintained through modified harvesting and harvest-scheduling.
A minimum of 10% of each forest type must be maintained in this
stage within the production forest of each forest management
unit. Where land is allocated for industrial forest uses, excellent
practices should be required and poor practices penalized. The
adoption of voluntary third-party forest certification standards
should be encouraged.
Public Accountability Objective
Ensure that communities and the public at large have the authority
and resources to oversee and monitor public-land management.
Provide public access to resource information and guarantee annual
reporting of key statistics on public-land issues.
Combined Protected Areas Objective
Ontario should formally designate and protect not less than 15
to 20 % of the public lands in each ecological district for remote
wilderness, old growth forests, wetlands, parks or protected
areas and for wilderness-based recreation and employment opportunities.
The completion of a protected system also contributes to the
achievement of voluntary forest-certification standards and the
protection of international markets.
(This percentage is a goal for the Lands for Life Planning
area as a whole and may be higher or lower in particular areas.
Some protected areas will be within parks and be roadless or
contain old-growth forests; others may be conservation reserves
or wildlife management areas. Their cumulative area should be
in the range of 15 to 20% of the total land-base.)
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