The Species at Risk Act (2002) and Transboundary Species Listings along the US–Canada Border
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: English and Cultural Studies, Department of (Okanagan)
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identifier citation: Humanities 13 (1): 38 (2024)
creator: Raymond, Sarah
creator: Perkins, Sarah E.
creator: Garrard, Greg
issued: 2024-04-10T20:26:24Z
issued: 2024-02-14
description: This paper is a collaborative interdisciplinary examination of the scientific, political, and cultural determinants of the conservation status of mammal species that occur in both Canada and the USA. We read Canada’s Species at Risk Act as a document of bio-cultural nationalism circumscribed by the weak federalism and Crown–Indigenous relations of the nation’s constitution. We also provide a numerical comparison of at-risk species listings either side of the US–Canada border and examples of provincial/state listings in comparison with those at a federal level. We find 17 mammal species listed as at-risk in Canada as distinct from the USA, and only 6 transboundary species that have comparable levels of protection in both countries, and we consider several explanations for this asymmetry. We evaluate the concept of ‘jurisdictional rarity’, in which species are endangered only because a geopolitical boundary isolates a small population. The paper begins and ends with reflections on interdisciplinary collaboration, and our findings highlight the importance of considering and explicitly acknowledging political influences on science and conservation-decision making, including in the context of at-risk-species protection.
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note: Citation: Raymond, Sarah, Sarah E.Perkins, and Greg Garrard. 2024. TheSpecies at Risk Act (2002) andTransboundary Species Listings alongthe US–Canada Border. Humanities 13:38. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13010038Received: 18 December 2023Revised: 1 February 2024Accepted: 8 February 2024Published: 14 February 2024Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).humanitiesArticleThe Species at Risk Act (2002) and Transboundary SpeciesListings along the US–Canada BorderSarah Raymond 1 , Sarah E. Perkins 1 and Greg Garrard 2,*1 School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Sir Martin Evans Building, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK;raymondsc@cardiff.ac.uk (S.R.); perkinss@cardiff.ac.uk (S.E.P.)2 Department of English and Cultural Studies, The University of British Columbia,Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada* Correspondence: greg.garrard@ubc.caAbstract: This paper is a collaborative interdisciplinary examination of the scientific, political, andcultural determinants of the conservation status of mammal species that occur in both Canada and theUSA. We read Canada’s Species at Risk Act as a document of bio-cultural nationalism circumscribedby the weak federalism and Crown–Indigenous relations of the nation’s constitution. We also providea numerical comparison of at-risk species listings either side of the US–Canada border and examples ofprovincial/state listings in comparison with those at a federal level. We find 17 mammal species listedas at-risk in Canada as distinct from the USA, and only 6 transboundary species that have comparablelevels of protection in both countries, and we consider several explanations for this asymmetry.We evaluate the concept of ‘jurisdictional rarity’, in which species are endangered only becausea geopolitical boundary isolates a small population. The paper begins and ends wit…
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0441271
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/h13010038
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
subject: conservation legislation
subject: Canada
subject: USA
subject: environmental humanities
subject: jurisdictional rarity
subject: science and technology studies
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87740