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SASKATCHEWAN'S PROTECTED AREAS
Types of Protected Areas
Saskatchewan's typically identifies and designates new "provincial" protected areas through a provincial government program called the Representative Areas Network (RAN). Numerous Provincial and Federal designation categories are identified in the RAN program such as provincial parks, regional parks, national parks, community pastures and so on. When new sites are selected either by the Provincial or Federal governments, protection is achieved through designation under various legal statutes such as the Parks Act, the Ecological Reserves Act, the Parkland Reserves Act, and so on. Saskatchewan's provincial statutes can be found on the Queens Printer website called FREELAW.
The list below summarizes protected area designations in Saskatchewan.
Details on each of these designations can be found in Representative Area Designations Categories in Saskatchewan. The goals, objectives, selection criteria and management considerations for each type of protected area are listed:
- Ecological Reserve
- Game Preserve
- Protected Area (Cultural Resource and Natural Area)
- Provincial Historic Park
- Provincial Historic Site
- Provincial Natural Environment Park
- Provincial Recreation Park
- Provincial Recreation Site
- Provincial Wilderness Park
- Regional Park
- Urban Park
- Wildlife Development Fund Land
- Wildlife Habitat Protection Land
- Wildlife Refuge
- Canadian Heritage River
- Migratory Bird Sanctuary
- National Historic Park
- National Historic Site
- National Park
- National Wildlife Area
- PFRA Community Pasture
- Provincial Community Pasture
- Provincial and Municipal Heritage Property
- RAMSAR
Existing Protected Areas
The map above shows existing protected areas in Saskatchewan's boreal region that are probably large enough (greater than 10,000 ha) to help preserve biological diversity. Although not included on this map, smaller protected areas do have value and are an important component to maintaining healthy lands. However, science teaches us that ecosystem health can only be preserved over the long term if the key protected areas are large and linked in some way. None of the protected areas, large or small, are linked in Saskatchewan. NOTE: Mapping information for existing protected areas in the prairie region is not available at this time.
LEARN MORE:
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| About Protected Areas |
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| What is protection and why we should protect areas. |
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| How to Protect |
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| CPAWS advocates Ecosystem-based Management practices including, connecting protected areas and cultural-based planning. |
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| Government Protected Area Programs |
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| Learn about the RAN, government commitments, and the state of protected areas in Saskatchewan. |
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| CPAWS' Work |
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| CPAWS Saskatchewan's work to protect forest and prairie ecosystems. |
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