Canada's Biodiversity Outcomes FrameworkBiodiversity Outcomes Framework was approved by Ministers responsible for Environment, Forests, Parks, Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Wildlife in October 2006. It has been developed further to the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy,Canadian Biodiversity Strategy an implementation measure required under Article 6 of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.Convention Article 6. General Measures for Conservation and Sustainable UseNational Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)
Criticism of the Framework
The Framework has been developed from the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy, which has been criticized as having a tendency to focus on species and to assign less importance to other scales of biodiversity from the genetic to the ecosystem level.Celebrating Biodiversity: Adaptive Planning and Biodiversity Conservation
See also Criticisms of the biodiversity paradigm
References
External links Convention on Biological Diversity Biodiversity Convention Office Environment Canada