IMPLEMENTING - CONNECTIVITY CONSERVATION - IN C ANADA - EDITED BY: CHRISTOPHER J. LEMIEUX

The mission of the CCEA is to support the establishment and management of a network of ecological areas that will represent and conserve the natural diversity of Canada’s terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems for the benefit of all Canadians. [...] The report builds upon CCEA’s recent and on-going The performance of protected areas and OECMs relies on a efforts to interpret IUCN guidelines for protected areas in a number of factors, including adequate financing, and effective Canadian context, provide evidence-based guidance on the and equitable governance and management. [...] While the focus of much Governments, Indigenous Peoples, conservation of Canada’s protected areas establishment over the past organizations, the public, and the private sector all have a two decades has focused on ecosystem representation, a role to play in the effective implementation of connectivity critical and urgent need will be to begin the difficult process conservation. [...] 22 ix including sample governance models, legislative and policy While there are still more aspects of and perspectives on contexts, an organizational capacity and needs assessment, connectivity and case studies that could be included, it is the and case studies of connectivity conservation in practice hope of the CCEA, the editors, and more than 20 authors in Canada. [...] conservation across Canada, and perhaps for all signatories to the Convention on Biodiversity working towards achieving Given the formidable challenges confronting the the goals of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and establishment of effective networks of protected areas, it the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity.