Auditor General’s Report – Make Species at Risk a Higher Priority

Auditor General’s Report: make species at risk a higher priority

Common Nighthawk, photo by Gary L. Clark on Wikipedia

Common Nighthawk, a Threatened species that breeds in the Backlands. Photo by Gary L. Clark (Wikipedia)

In his spring report, Auditor General Michael Pickup says the Department of Natural Resources needs to make the 60 species at risk a bigger priority. It is often late in developing and updating plans to recover species. Monitoring of species at risk also needs improvement to know whether progress has been made. The full report and related videos are available at www.oag-ns.ca.

To read more, please click on this link to the Backlands Coalition article.

Auditor General’s Report – Make Species at Risk a Higher Priority