Ontario Nature Guest Blog: 10 disturbing findings from Ontario’s Protecting and Recovering Species at Risk report
Ontario Nature Guest Blog: 10 disturbing findings from Ontario’s Protecting and Recovering Species at Risk report

This blog was originally published by Ontario Nature. Guest blog by
Anne Bell, Director of Conservation and Education at Ontario Nature.

Ontario Nature reveals government failure: Ontario’s record on protecting species at risk is devastating for wildlife

The Auditor General of Ontario’s report, Protecting and Recovering Species at Risk, is not reading for the faint of heart. Released on November 22, 2021, the audit sets out in excruciating detail the Government of Ontario’s abject failure to exercise its duty to protect the province’s most vulnerable plants and animals.


Rapids clubtail dragonfly, Endangered

Endangered Rapids clubtail dragonfly- photo by Dan Irizarry © CC_BY-NC-SA 2.0

The review spans the government’s record on implementing the Endangered Species Act, 2007 (ESA) since 2009. The unwillingness of those responsible to uphold the purpose and intent of the law – to protect and recover species at risk– is scandalous. Faced with an accelerating, worldwide extinction crisis,

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The F-14 Tomcat posed this kind of a serious risk to the Soviets that after they tried using to fish one particular that fell off the plane provider USS John F. Kennedy

The Soviets attempted to go fishing for an F-14 that fell off the USS John F. Kennedy in 1976 – following the plane’s manage techniques went haywire and the pilot/RIO experienced to eject

Intended in 1968 to choose the place of the controversial F-111B, then underneath enhancement for the US Navy’s carrier fighter stock, the Grumman F-14A Tomcat used the AWG-9 program and carried the 6 Goal-54 Phoenix missiles that had been intended for the F-111B. A completely new fighter procedure was created all over these with emphasis on shut-in preventing “claws” together with standoff missile fighting. 

All round, the F-14 was with no equivalent among the today’s Absolutely free Planet fighters. Six long-array Aim-54A Phoenix missiles could be guided from six different danger plane at lengthy selection by the F-14’s AWG-9 weapons handle program. For medium-range overcome, Sparrow missiles had been carried Sidewinders and a 20mm were available for

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