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 of the region. Kharkov apartments. Cheap hotel kharkov site. Kharkov hotels.




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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