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Migratory Birds CEC Complaint
Status: Victory
Complaint to the CEC spurred investigation exposing destruction of 45,000 birds nests each year by logging companies in Ontario's public forests
On behalf of environmental groups from Canada and the United States, Ecojustice filed a complaint with the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation in February 2002 regarding Canada's failure to protect migratory birds at their nesting sites as required by the international Migratory Birds Convention Act.
Our research revealed that clear-cut logging operations in Ontario alone destroy more than 44,000 nests annually.
After a seven-month delay the factual was released in February 2007 and confirmed widespread lack of enforcement of the MBCA violations by logging operations in Ontario as well as declining migratory bird habitat in forests management for logging operations in possible violations of the requirements under Ontario law.
Staff:
Dr. Elaine MacDonald, Staff Scientist, Toronto
Albert Koehl, Staff Lawyer, Toronto
