NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 75/22

Endangered Species List Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Endangered Species Act
(O.C. 2022-254)

(Filed October 28, 2022)

Under the authority of sections 7 and 44 of the Endangered Species Act, the Minister of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture, with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, makes the following regulations.

Dated at St. John’s, October 28, 2022.

Derrick Bragg
Minister of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture

Krista Quinlan
Clerk of the Executive Council

REGULATIONS

Analysis

        1.   S.5 Added
Extinct species

        2.   Sch. B Amdt.

        3.   Sch. C Amdt.

        4.   Sch. D Added

          

NLR 57/02
as amended

        1. The Endangered Species List Regulations are amended by adding immediately after section 4 the following:

Extinct species

        5. The species, subspecies or populations of species listed in Schedule D are designated as extinct.

 

        2. Schedule B of the regulations is amended by

             (a)  deleting the species "Chimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica";

             (b)  deleting the species "Common Nighthawk - Chardeiles minor";

             (c)  adding immediately after the species "Hudsonian Godwit - Limosa haemastica" the species "Leach's Storm Petrel – Oceanodroma leucorhoa" and the species "Lesser Yellowlegs – Tringa flavipes";

             (d)  deleting the species "Olive-sided Flycatcher - Contopus cooperi"; and

             (e)  adding immediately after the species "Sharpleaf Aster - Oclemena acuminata" the species "Short-eared Owl - Asio flammeus".

 

        3. Schedule C of the regulations is amended by

             (a)  adding immediately after the species "Banded Killifish – Fundulus diaphanus" the species "Barn Swallow – Hirundo rustica";

             (b)  adding immediately after the species "Boreal Felt Lichen - Erioderma pedicellatum" the species "Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor";

             (c)  adding immediately after the species "Mummichog - Fundulus heteroclitus macrolepidotus" the species "Olive-sided Flycatcher - Contopus cooperi"; and

             (d)  deleting the species "Short-eared owl - Asio flammeus".

 

        4. The regulations are amended by adding immediately after Schedule C the following:

Schedule D

Extinct Species

Grizzly Bear (Ungava Population)      Ursus arctos

 

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