What is a wildlife refuge?
Creating a wildlife refuge to protect and conserve native wildlife on your property is voluntary. The purposes of a wildlife refuge can include: • recovery of local wildlife species • restoration of natural environments • study of wildlife and natural environments • creating simulated natural environments.Wildlife refuges may contain remnant native vegetation as well as habitat provided by wildlife corridors, windbreaks, woodlots or farm dams. Wildlife refuge declarations enable landholders to nominate part or all of a property where the land has native wildlife values and will be managed for this purpose. With whole property management, landholders can continue to include agricultural and other landuses with the conservation of wildlife.Who can own a wildlife refuge? Private landholders, public land managers and lessees of Crown land can declare their land a wildlife refuge.How is a wildlife refuge created? Landholders identify land to be covered by a wildlife refuge, and with assista
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