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Executive Summary KGHM Ajax Mining Inc. proposes to construct, operate and decommission an open pit copper and gold mine adjacent to the southern limits of the City of Kamloops in British Columbia. The Ajax Mine Project would process up to 65,000 tonnes of ore per day over an operating mine life of up to 23 years. The Ajax Mine Project would have a footprint of approximately 1,700 hectares and would include an open pit, ore processing plant, tailings storage facility, mine rock storage facilities, and water and waste management systems. It would also include upgrades to an existing water intake on Kamloops Lake, a new 16 kilometre water line to transport water to the mine site, and a new 5.3 kilometre natural gas pipeline connecting with the Fortis pipeline near the community of Knutsford. A new 9 kilometre, 230 kilovolt transmission line would tie in with an existing BC Hydro power line near Knutsford to supply electricity to the Ajax Mine Project. The Inks Lake Interchange would be upgraded to provide direct access to the mine site from Highway 5 (Coquihalla Highway). The Ajax Mine Project was subject to review under both federal and provincial environmental assessment legislation, and a coordinated environmental assessment was carried out by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) and the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO). The Agency and EAO prepared a joint federal Comprehensive Study/provincial Assessment Report that meets the requirements of both the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Act, and which will inform separate environmental assessment decisions on the Ajax Mine Project by federal and provincial ministers.
The American badger is endangered in British Columbia. Badgers inhabit grasslands and open forests, and badger habitat is threatened by forest ingrowth and encroachment related to wildfire suppression. Ecosystem restoration (ER) involves removing forest ingrowth and reintroducing prescribed fire. Commercial forestry can subsidize restoration work, but machinery may damage important badger burrows. We examined an ER cutblock within a designated badger wildlife habitat area. Badger burrows were placed in 5-7 m radius machine-free zones (MFZs) and surveyed before and after logging. Machine operators were trained to protect burrows, and we tested their ability to protect unmarked burrows. Pre-flagged MFZs protected almost all burrows within them (98%, n=258) from damage. Operators found only 9 of 38 unmarked test burrows, but also located and protected an additional 63 new burrows. We conclude that MFZs of 5-7 m radius are sufficient to protect badger burrows during logging operations when combined with operator training.
RENEW (the Committee on the Recovery of Nationally Endangered Wildlife) oversees the recovery of endangered wildlife in Canada. This report provides the sub-committee reports and approved recovery plan report by species. Each plan report gives background, the recovery plan objectives and actions, and a map showing the breeding range. Less detail is offered by other recovery team reports and a table outlines the status of teams and plans. Appendices detail personnel and expenditures for each recovery team by participating organization. The report concludes with a list of species at risk by kingdom and risk category.
This publication is intended to promote a better understanding of the need for species at risk recovery in Canada and the ways in which people can participate in that process. It describes RENEW (Recovery of Nationally Endangered Wildlife), Canada's national recovery program, and provides information on how the Species at Risk Act influences the recovery process; recovery teams; corporate partnerships; and financial contributions. It also celebrates the Canadians who are striving to save the wild in Canada by describing some recovery successes.
"The selection of species to include in this book was based on two principles: 1. Those that in recent times had a viable, naturally occurring wild population in Canada, its continental islands, or in the marine waters of its continental shelf ... [and] 2. Species introduced into Canada by humans"--P. xiv.
Widespread land-use changes in the Great Plains have resulted in a patchy mosaic of prairie embedded within human-modified landscapes. The distribution of prairie-obligate species in this region may be constrained by these alternate land-use types, though many carnivore-specific examples are unknown. We used three years (2018-2020) of data collected from camera-trap sites (n = 381) in western Kansas, USA to assess multiscale effects of landscape change on the distribution of American badgers (badger, Taxidea taxus), an important predator and ecosystem engineer. We predicted initial site occupancy probabilities and colonization rates would be positively associated with the amount of prairie and Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) hectares surrounding sites. We also predicted site occupancy and colonization would be negatively associated with the amount of row crop agriculture and density of wind towers surrounding sites along with distance to permanent water sources. Habitat use by badgers was insensitive to the amount of prairie and CRP surrounding sites at both local and landscape scales. Contrary to our hypothesis, badgers were more likely to occupy and colonize sites with greater amounts of row-crop agriculture at both landscape and local scales. Additionally, badgers were less likely to occupy sites farther from permanent water sources. Our study suggests that badgers, although considered prairie-obligate carnivores, may be exploiting row crop agricultural areas because of increased prey densities or suitable burrowing/digging substrates. Moreover, our research highlights the importance of permanent water resources to badgers in arid regions within the Great Plains.