Letter to AVVIC: 2023 Resolution

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Bowen  Denman  Hornby  Gabriola  Galiano  Gambier  Lasqueti  Mayne  North Pender  Salt Spring  Saturna  South Pender  Thetis 
 
 
 
 
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  February 9, 2023      File: 6000-30-10; 5770-30-10 
 
Via email:  avicc@ubcm.ca 
 
Regular mail copy to follow: 
 
Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities 
525 Government Street  
Victoria BC  V8V 0A8 
 
Re: 2023 Resolution 
 
Please be advised that on January 11, 2023, the Islands Trust Executive Committee passed the 
following resolution for the 2023 AVICC Annual General Meeting: 
 
That the Executive Committee direct staff to draft a resolution and backgrounder on the following: 
request that the Province enact endangered species legislation for British Columbia in consultation 
and jointly with First Nations for submission to the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal 
Communities 2023 convention for the Chair’s consideration in January 2023. 
 
Please find attached the proposed resolution and backgrounder. 
 
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further information. 
 
Yours truly, 
 
 
David Marlor 
Corporate Secretary 
 
Attachment:  
Resolution and  Backgrounder: New Legislation for  Protection  of  Biodiversity,  Ecosystem  Health 
and Species at Risk  
 

 
 
  
 
 
            2023 RESOLUTION SUBMISSION TO UBCM 
 
 
NEW LEGISLATION FOR PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY, 
ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND SPECIES AT RISK  
ISLANDS TRUST 
 
RESOLUTION: 
 
WHEREAS in 2022 UBCM endorsed resolutions calling on the Province of BC to work in cooperation with 
First Nations to enact species at risk legislation and to work towards new legislation to protect and 
restore biological diversity and ecosystem health;  
 
AND WHEREAS in November 2022 the Canadian Endangered Species Conservation Council released the 
Wild Species 2020: The General Status of Species in Canada Report which documents an increased risk of 
extinction for 700 species in British Columbia in the last five years;   
 
AND WHEREAS in December 2022, Canada joined 195 countries in the Kunming-Montreal Global 
Biodiversity Framework which aims to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030; 
 
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that UBCM call upon the Province of British Columbia to urgently proceed 
with legislation, informed by new agreements and reports, co-developed with First Nations, that enables 
legal and financial mechanisms for the protection of biodiversity, ecosystem health, and species at risk 
in British Columbia. 
 
 
 
  

 
 
BACKGROUNDER: 
Legislated legal and financial mechanisms for the protection of biodiversity, ecosystem health, and 
species at risk in British Columbia are urgently needed. 
In 2022, UBCM endorsed resolutions NR 38, NR 39, NR40 and NR41 which are consisten

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