Item G-2021-013: 0047A - Dettah Wildlife ACT + SAR Public meeting Nov 27/01 + Nov 28/01 TAPE 1 [Side 1]

• Sound recording

1 audio cassette (63 min.)

This item consists of part one of a four-part consultation meeting (Phase 2) held November 27-28, 2001 between staff from the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development (RWED) and the community of Dettah on proposed new wildlife legislation. The meeting is in English and Wiilliideh. The original source item is side A of a 120 minute audio cassette. The meeting also includes items 0047B, 0048A, and 0048B. The first segment of the meeting is in an Indigenous language, likely Wiiliideh Yatii, including an opening prayer. The presenters introduce themselves: Raymond Bourget (Senior Wildlife Officer in Yellowknife, Ron Graf (Manager with Wildlife and Fisheries), and Ernie Campbell (Manager of Wildlife, North Slave Region). The meeting continues with the introductory presentation, including purpose of meeting, legislation development process and timelines, and how to make comments. Then there is a presentation of proposed Species at Risk legislation, including examples of endangered species in the NWT, reasons for developing legislation, general process (assessment, listing, automatic prohibitions, recovery plan and implementation, reassessment), committee (composition, role), categories of risk, listing, recovery (team composition, strategy content and timelines, plan implementation and participants, recovery cycle), reassessment and delisting, emergency listing, habitat protection, compliance, intentional and unintentional harm, and stewardship. After the presentation are comments and questions, with responses, including what species the Act will apply to, decline in muskrat populations, increase in number of injured caribou, impact of mine sites, phone number to call and make a report, hunting bison, and compensation for losses. There are several comments made in Wiiliideh, which are not translated on the tape, but are responded to in English.