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Ontario Nature Guest Blog: 10 disturbing findings from Ontario’s Protecting and Recovering Species at Risk report
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Ontario Nature Guest Blog: 10 disturbing findings from Ontario’s Protecting and Recovering Species at Risk report

- by Duane Loper
Ontario Nature Guest Blog: 10 disturbing findings from Ontario’s Protecting and Recovering Species at Risk report

This blog was originally published by Ontario Nature. Guest blog by
Anne Bell, Director of Conservation and Education at Ontario Nature.

Ontario Nature reveals government failure: Ontario’s record on protecting species at risk is devastating for wildlife

The Auditor General of Ontario’s report, Protecting and Recovering Species at Risk, is not reading for the faint of heart. Released on November 22, 2021, the audit sets out in excruciating detail the Government of Ontario’s abject failure to exercise its duty to protect the province’s most vulnerable plants and animals.


Rapids clubtail dragonfly, Endangered

Endangered Rapids clubtail dragonfly- photo by Dan Irizarry © CC_BY-NC-SA 2.0

The review spans the government’s record on implementing the Endangered Species Act, 2007 (ESA) since 2009. The unwillingness of those responsible to uphold the purpose and intent of the law – to protect and recover species at risk– is scandalous. Faced with an accelerating, worldwide extinction crisis,

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Zhu Zhu Pets Declared Secure Subsequent Report of Chemical Risks

- by Duane Loper

CPSC investigates right after client team statements chemical risks in well-known toy.

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December 3, 2009, 6:27 PM

4 min study

Dec. 7, 2009— — There will be no recall for the well-liked Zhu Zhu Pets Hamsters pursuing a contested report that the toys contained “risky” stages of perhaps dangerous metals, an formal for the Purchaser Item Protection Fee told ABC News these days.

The formal stated the CPSC had identified that the toys meet all federal criteria for heavy metals and that the agency deemed them “harmless.”

The CSPC remark will come several hours right after the purchaser group that initially documented the toys’ dangers, GoodGuide, issued a “correction” in a press release and clarified that its screening system differed from that of the field typical.

“Whilst we accurately

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