{"id":192407,"date":"2023-11-03T16:11:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T20:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=192407"},"modified":"2023-11-06T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:13:58","slug":"first-nations-federal-and-provincial-governments-reach-conservation-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/first-nations-federal-and-provincial-governments-reach-conservation-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"First Nations, federal and provincial governments reach conservation agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A tripartite agreement between the federal government, the British Columbia government and First Nations that will see $1 billion used to protect BC\u2019s landscape and species was reached on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/news\/2023\/11\/tripartite-framework-agreement-on-nature-conservation-between-canada-british-columbia-and-the-first-nations-leadership-council.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tripartite Framework Agreement on Nature Conservation<\/a> aims to protect 30 per cent of BC\u2019s land and waters by 2030. The main focus of the agreement is on old growth forests and hopes to help sustain habitat for species in decline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wildsight.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildsight<\/a> Executive Director Robyn Duncan says the agreement will help protect the Kootenay forests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cIn the Kootenay region, we\u2019ve lost mountain caribou and other wildlife populations are experiencing decline. This agreement will lead to long term habitat protection and also habitat restoration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A conference was held in Vancouver to announce the deal. BC Premier David Eby and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Elected Regional Chief of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcafn.ca\/about-bcafn\/leadership\/regional-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terry Teegee<\/a> shared their thoughts on this historic agreement. The conference in its entirety can be viewed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/EhldgNwK2r0?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Listen to the story on CJLY below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tripartite agreement between the federal government, the British Columbia government and First Nations that will see $1 billion used to protect BC\u2019s landscape and species was reached on Friday. The Tripartite Framework Agreement on Nature Conservation aims to protect 30 per cent of BC\u2019s land and waters by 2030. The main focus of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":192415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222,225],"tags":[4579,32404,32403,30939],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192810,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192407\/revisions\/192810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192407"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=192407"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=192407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}