CPAWS WORK:
On the Prairie

	- Photo by Branimir Gjetvaj

CPAWS Saskatchewan works on conservation projects with many different people in communities, governments, industries and other non-profit organizations to establish broadly supported land use solutions.

Our work often embraces a method of conservation planning called ecosystem-based management. As the phrase implies, it is managing human activities with the health of the ecosystem in mind. In Saskatchewan, current methods of land use planning usually do not yet address the long-term health of the land. Our challenge is to invoke meaningful change so that ecosystem health is a 'must' for land use decision-making.

Our conservation goal on the prairie is to establish protection of the remaining large areas of native prairie under Crown ownership and management in Saskatchewan (sites greater than 10,000 ha). As our chapter capacity permits us, the work will involve identifying these large areas, undertaking a general assessment of their importance for ecological representation and biological diversity value, determining the threats to their continued existence, assessing the feasibility of increasing or applying protection, ranking the prime candidate sites, and developing strategies for designation. This project will create three key products that do not now exist: a strategic assessment of the best candidate sites on Crown land, an assessment of the threats and opportunities on those lands, and a plan to achieve designation decisions. We will also be undertaking direct action on high priority sites of known interest and importance that are currently under threat, like The Great Sand Hills.

Projects and Areas of Interest:

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CPAWS Work An overview of CPAWS Saskatchewan's work.

CPAWS WORK: In the Boreal Links to CPAWS Saskatchewan projects and areas of interest in the Boreal Forest.