| Conservation: |
planned management and wise use of resources to ensure
that they are available for future generations.
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| Disinicentive: |
barrier to positive action, or incentive to perform a
harmful behaviour (eg., a program to promote wetland drainage).
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| Incentive: |
enticement that encourages decisions that protect and
conserve wetlands (e.g., financial assistance to implement
best management practices)
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| No net loss: |
policy in which wetlands must be created or restored for those
destroyed.
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| Protection: |
keeping a wetland in a natural state by preventing any activity that would impact
the wetland; synonymous with preservation.
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| Restoration: |
Re-establishing a wetland that has been drained or
degraded into a functioning ecosystem whose characteristics are
as close as possible to pre-disturbance conditions.
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Significant:
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wetlands with local, provincial, national or international importance
for one or more reasons.
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| Wetland: |
areas that are periodically or permanently inundated by
surface or ground water long enough to develop characteristics
such as wet altered soils, water tolerant vegetation, and biological
activity adapted to a wet environment. Wetland types include marshes,
shallow open water, bogs, fens and swamps.
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| Sustainable Use: |
management of resources that ensures present needs are met,
and the capacity of the resource is maintained so that the ability
of future generations to benefit from these resources is not compromised.
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