Ecojustice Canada files lawsuit seeking a judicial review of a habitat protection strategy for endangered piping plover shorebirds
Environmental advocates are taking the federal government to court over new rules to protect the habitat of an endangered shorebird species known as the piping plover.
But an amended strategy released in September changes the way the critical habitat is identified, the suit alleges. Ecojustice lawyer Sarah MacDonald said the 2012 plover recovery strategy did a “really good job” of identifying critical habitats and was “very clear” that entire beaches had to be protected. The strategy identified beaches by name and through global positioning system co-ordinates, she said.“Instead of saying that an entire beach is critical habitat, what they now do is they set out these what they call grid squares, these one-by-one kilometre squares that cover these beaches,” MacDonald said.
Piping plovers are tiny birds found only in North America with two subspecies — one that breeds on the Canadian prairies and another along the Atlantic coast. Bob Bancroft, president of Nature Nova Scotia, says plovers are drawn to naturally caused disturbances on the beaches where they live.
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