Regional Planning
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After a decade of campaigning and negotiating, environmental groups, industry, First Nations, and the B.C. government came to a landmark agreement in 2009 to protect 2.8 million hectares of the Great Bear Rainforest (GBR). Half of the pristine rainforest was made off limits to logging, with a commitment from the B.C. government to increase this amount to 70 percent by 2014. The agreement also included $120 million for First Nations communities in the GBR to initiate new, sustainable economies as an alternative to logging. In a continuation of this work, the Marine Planning Partnership (MaPP) between the provincial government and the First Nation groups of BC’s North and Central Coasts and Haida Gwaii aims to extend the GBR’s high standard of conservation into the ocean environment through detailed planning in the region. Read more... Planning will take place at four tables, one for each sub-region of the coast: northern Vancouver Island and the Nanwakolas teritories; the Central Coast, and the Coastal First Nations territories; the North Coast, and the North Coast-Skeena territories; and Haida Gwaii. Each of the four tables will work closely with local governments, regional districts, communities and local businesses to develop a detailed plan for how the waters in their sub-region will be managed. In addition, a regional table will do the work of linking planning products from the sub-regions to products of federal planning in PNCIMA and the network of marine protected areas (MPAs). This partnership will complement the federal PNCIMA planning process, picking up at the level of detail where it leaves off. This will include detailed marine spatial planning aspects such as MPAs. The Living Oceans Society will be working at all levels with these planning tables. |
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