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6. Conclusion
Many of these outcomes
support recommendations
made by Ontario’s Far
North Science Advisory
Panel and provide
insights for considering
the conservation matrix
model approach to
conservation and planning
in an intact region like
Ontario’s Far North.
The outcomes of this pilot project offers important considerations
when addressing cumulative effects in northern Ontario, including:
the benefit to wildlife of limiting land use to isolated nodes within
an otherwise intact landscape; the need to improve understanding of
the cumulative effects to aquatic ecosystems of multiple large-scale
developments (e.g., mines, dams) within northern watersheds; and
the potential for climate change to increase the sensitivity of wildlife
to land use. Many of these outcomes support recommendations
made by Ontario’s Far North Science Advisory Panel and provide
insights for considering the Conservation Matrix Model approach
to conservation and planning in an intact region like Ontario’s Far
North. We hope that these findings will inform land-use planning
at both the community and regional scale in the region and support
the need for a comprehensive assessment of cumulative effects in
Ontario’s Far North.
50 Canadian Boreal Initiative | Wildlife Conservation Society Canada