BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED 
     
     that the Canadian Nature 
     
     Federation 
     
    
   
   
    
     a) express its pleasure 
     
     to the Prime Minister 
     
     for the federal 
     
     cabinet‘s decision; 
     
    

    
     b) reminds both governments 
     
     that the establishment 
     
     of the Grasslands 
     
     National Park will 
     
     receive widespread public 
     
     support; and 
     
    

    
     c) urges both governments 
     
     to conclude negotiations 
     
     with successful establish- 
     
     ment of the Grasslands 
     
     National Park by the end 
     
     of 1980 (i.e. within 
     
     Saskatchewan's 75th 
     
     anniversary year). 
     
    
   
   
    
     VII Ecological Reserves 
     
     Legislation 
     
    
   
   
    
     An ecological reserve is a 
     
     legally protected natural area 
     
     intended to preserve representative 
     
     or unique ecosystems, habitats, 
     
     species or natural phenomena by 
     
     keeping human influence to a 
     
     minimum. Some provinces have 
     
     recently passed ecological 
     
     reserves legislation but there 
     
     are still many sites designated 
     
     as potential reserves which 
     
     receive no suitable protection. 
     
    
   
   
    
     BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED 
     
     that the Canadian Nature 
     
     Federation commends the 
     
     governments of British 
     
     Columbia, New Brunswick, 
     
     Quebec, Nova Scotia, New- 
     
     foundland and Saskatchewan; 
     
     and urges the Governments 
     
     of Alberta, Manitoba, 
     
     Ontario and Prince Edward 
     
     Island, and the federal 
     
     government with respect 
     
    

    
     to the Yukon and Northwest 
     
     Territories to take 
     
     immediate steps to 
     
     legislate,Ecological 
     
     Reserves Acts and to then 
     
    
   
   
    
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     establish a representative 
     
    
   
   
    
     system of ecological . 
     
    
   
   
    
     reserves . 
     
    
   
   
    
     VIII World Conservation Strategy 
     
    
   
   
    
     In recognition of the long 
     
    
   
   
    
     term global need to develop 
     
     policies aimed at sustaining 
     
     development while preserving 
     
     the biological organisms and 
     
     processes essential to man— 
     
     kind's survival, the Inter- 
     
     national Union for the 
     
     Conservation of Nature and 
     
     Natural Resources (IUCN) 
     
     announced the World 
     
     Conservation Strategy in 
     
     March 1980. The strategy 
     
    

    
     is intended to stimulate a 
     
     more focussed approach to 
     
     the management of living 
     
     resources and to provide 
     
     policy guidance on how 
     
    

    
     this can be carried out. 
     
    
   
   
    
     BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED 
     
    

    
     that the Canadian Nature 
     
    

    
     Federation 
     
    

    
     a) urges the federal 
     
     government and the 
     
     various provincial and 
     
     territorial governments 
     
     to adopt the World 
     
     Conservation Strategy 
     
     and to implement the 
     
     World Conservation 
     
     Strategy in all areas 
     
     of their respective 
     
     jurisdictions to which 
     
     it applies; and 
     
    

    
     b) urges the federal 
     
     gOVernment in its 
     
     foreign policy to 
     
     encourage the 
     
     adoption and implemen- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tation by other countries 
     
     of the World Conservation 
     
     Strategy. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Winnie Cairns, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Repersentative Director, C.N.F‘