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Blanchard's Cricket Frog Extirpated

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The Blanchard’s Cricket Frog is in the last stages of going officially extinct in Ontario .

Shane Moffatt : Ontario is increasingly an outlier, dragging its heels on new protected areas and enacting “pay-to-slay” provisions to benefit heavy industry.

Ontario has announced parallel plans to scrap the Endangered Species Act and create “special economic zones,” where developers and resource companies are exempt from provincial regulations.

Moffatt says Ontario should be strengthening existing legislation and learn from what is working well for other provinces.

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