Ovenhead

To protect the biological diversity of fauna and flora within the Province and the relationship between such fauna and flora and the environment by protecting, conserving and managing lands that are representative of ecosystems or natural landscapes within the Province, contain unique or unusual assemblages of fauna or flora, contain, in its natural habitat, native fauna or flora that is rare or endangered, or contain ecosystems that have been altered by humans and that offer opportunities for the study of the recovery of the ecosystems from such alteration.

Species of Concern: multiple

Restrictions

The following activities are prohibited within a Class II Protected Natural Area. Except as otherwise provided, no person shall within a Class II Protected Natural Area:
1. Carry on aquaculture activities,
2. Carry on mineral exploration activities or mining activities,
3. Carry on boring or drilling activities,
4. Carry on quarrying activities,
5. Carry on gas or petroleum exploration or development activities,
6. Carry on excavation, leveling or construction activities,
7. Carry on industrial or commercial activities,
8. Use or operate a vehicle other than a watercraft, or
9. Carry on any of the following activities unless such activity is necessarily incidental to an activity that may lawfully be carried on within a Class II Protected Natural Area:
(A) introducing or removing any fauna or flora;
(B) disturbing, harassing, injuring or killing any fauna or disturbing, damaging or destroying any flora;
(C) introducing a substance or thing that may injure or kill any fauna or disturb, damage or destroy any flora; or
(D) any other activity that may disturb, alter, damage or destroy an ecosystem, or
(E) within a Class II Protected Natural Area or a portion of a Class II Protected Natural Area, carry on any other activity prohibited by regulation within that protected natural area or that portion of the protected natural area.

Allowed

Upon application to the Minister, the Minister may issue a permit to a person authorizing that person to enter and carry on within a protected natural area the following activities, whether or not such activities necessitate the carrying on of one or more activities are prohibited:
(a) scientific research;
(b) educational activities;
(c) the introduction of a species of fauna or flora for the purpose of the rehabilitation, recovery or restoration of a degraded ecosystem, the recovery or restoration of a depleted population of fauna or flora, or the recovery or restoration of an endangered species or a threatened species;
or(d) the introduction of a substance or thing into the protected natural area for the purpose of the rehabilitation, recovery or restoration of a degraded ecosystem.