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Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Goals of the Workshop
- Agenda
- Opening Address
- First Session: Setting the Context - Science Needs of Policy
- How is Biodiversity Policy Informed by Science?
- State of Ontario's Forest Birds
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Forest Management Guidelines for Conserving Biodiversity and Ecological Processes
- Second Session: Tools for Using Science, and Gaps in Science
- Recovery Potential Modelling: Interactions of Allowable Harm, Recovery Targets and Critical Habitat
- Gaps in Knowledge, Information, and Expertise Regarding Ontario's Biodiversity
- Third Session: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Key Findings
- Speaker Bios
- List of Participants
Workshop Proceedings Agenda
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| Date:Monday, 4 May, 2009 8:00 - 9:00 Registration |
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| Opening Address | |
| 9:00 - 9:20 Topic: Opening address (PDF 2.0MB) Speaker: Tattersall Smith, University of Toronto |
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| Session 1: Setting the context - Science needs of policy |
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| 9:20 - 9:40 Topic: How is policy informed by science? (PDF 488KB) Speaker: Cheryl Lewis, Ministry of Natural Resources |
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| 9:40 - 10:00 Topic: State of Ontario's Forest Birds (PDF 2.0MB) Speaker: Debbie Badzinski, Bird Studies Canada |
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10:00 - 10:20 |
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| 10:20 - 10:35 Break 10:35 - 12:05 Feedback session 12:05 - 1:05 Lunch |
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| Session 2: Tools for using science, and gaps in science | |
| 1:05 - 1:25 Topic: Allowable Harm Analysis, Restoration Potential of Species at Risk (PDF 534KB) Speaker: Marten Koops, Department of Fisheries and Oceans |
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| 1:25 - 1:45 Topic: Ontario Biodiversity Knowledge/ Information/ Expertise Gaps (PDF 1.3MB) Speaker: Bill Crins, Ministry of Natural Resources |
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| 1:45 - 2:45 Feedback session 2:45 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 3:30 Report backs from feedback sessions |
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| Session 3: Where do we go from here? |
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| 3:30 - 3:40 Moving forward/ Next steps for biodiversity science 3:40 - 4:10 Feedback sessions 4:10 - 4:40 Report backs from feedback sessions 4:40 - 5:00 Closing/ Wrap up |
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