Environment committee I'd say we're looking at 57...55 including the ATK.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee Subsection 16(2) of the act outlines the qualifications for membership.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee I consider myself to be an evolutionary ecologist.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee There were two herpetologists on the committee, but we're down to one at present.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee Correct.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee In effect, the way the subcommittee works is one co-chair dealt with amphibians and the other was an expert on reptiles. So while they might be herpetologists, their taxonomic areas of expertise are not the same.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee It's difficult to say. I can tell you that in the last competition we received one application, and that was from Dr. David Green. To a certain degree, the numbers of individuals who apply for membership in COSEWIC is dependent on a number of things. Of course, on the one hand,
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee How many are interested in contributing to this committee, for which we don't receive a salary? There's a lot of voluntary work, so you really have to be committed and be willing to put the additional time into it.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee Well, to assuage your disappointment, we have, in fact, been working on that quite considerably. The act, as you know, defines a wildlife species as a sub-species variety or a geographically or genetically distinct population of animal, plant, or other organism. So the act makes
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee What are recovery teams? COSEWIC has no part in recovery teams. But essentially, recovery teams are groups of individuals that are put together to establish a recovery strategy, a plan for recovery, a mitigation of threats for the purposes of increasing the health of a species at
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee I'm not on one, but I think the short answer is yes.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee I have not heard that.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee That was the reason given. He wanted to achieve a balance between returning and new members.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee There were six.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings
Environment committee Of the six, one of them was me, three were new, and three were returning.
May 28th, 2009Committee meeting
Prof. Jeffrey Hutchings