Provincially significant peatlands are a type of protected area designated under The Peatlands Stewardship Act and The Provincially Significant Peatlands Regulation. Provincially significant peatlands are a type of protected area designation under The Peatlands Stewardship Act and The Provincially Significant Regulation. Peatlands designated as provincially significant are legally protected from resource development activities, including peat harvesting, mining, hydro-electric development, logging, and agricultural activities. See The Peatlands Stewardship Act for additional details https://www.gov.mb.ca/nrnd/forest/land-management/peatlands/index.html. 

These lands help preserve Nova Scotia’s natural values through a blend of legislation, ownership and management. Included here are: National Parks, National Wildlife Areas, Provincial Wilderness Areas, Provincial Nature Reserves, selected Provincial Parks and selected land trust properties and easements. This combination of federal, provincial and private lands contributes to both provincial and national land conservation and biodiversity goals.

ELF Protected Sites (PS) is one of 12 themes in the European Location Project (ELF). The purpose of ELF is to create harmonised cross-border, cross-theme and cross-resolution pan-European reference data from national contributions. The goal is to provide INSPIRE-compliant data for Europe. A description of the ELF (European Location Project) is here: http://www.elfproject.eu/content/overview. Encoding: INSPIRE version 4

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This server provides Web Services which adhere to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Service Implementation Specifications. Environment Canada works to preserve and enhance the quality of the natural environment; conserve Canada's renewable resources; conserve and protect Canada's water resources; carry out meteorology and provide weather forecasts; enforce rules relating to boundary waters; and, coordinate environmental policies and programs for the federal government.