{"id":26851,"date":"2019-12-19T09:06:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=26851"},"modified":"2019-12-19T09:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:06:45","slug":"ontario-working-to-keep-province-free-of-deadly-deer-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/ontario-working-to-keep-province-free-of-deadly-deer-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Working To Keep Province Free of Deadly Deer Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is taking action to help protect wildlife populations and ensure continued hunting opportunities in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The government has passed legislation and developed a plan to allow the Province to act quickly if wildlife diseases such as Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) &#8211; a progressive, fatal brain disorder that mostly affects deer and elk &#8211; is discovered in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>If CWD were detected in Ontario, the legislative changes will allow the government to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create response zones where special rules would apply, such as requiring hunters to submit animals for disease testing.<\/li>\n<li>Enable people to undertake activities that would otherwise be prohibited, such as authorizing a licensed hunter to dispatch symptomatic wildlife within a specified area.<\/li>\n<li>Implement long-term measures, such as restricting the exportation of certain live animals from a jurisdiction where CWD has been detected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We recognize the significant value wild deer have as an important part of Ontario&#8217;s biodiversity, and as a symbol of heritage to many Ontarians,&#8221; said John Yakabuski, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry. &#8220;These measures will support Ontario&#8217;s hunters and an industry that creates jobs and makes an important economic contribution to our province.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The measures to protect wildlife are part of the Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, which will simplify and modernize regulations Ontarians need, while eliminating outdated or duplicative requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of our top priorities in the Better for People, Smarter for Business Act is protecting our environment and safeguarding public health in the most effective way possible,&#8221; said Prabmeet Sarkaria, Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction. &#8220;I&#8217;m pleased the red tape reduction legislation empowers Ontario to be proactive and get ahead of any potential threats to our wildlife in a direct and streamlined manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Should CWD be discovered in Ontario, these measures will go a long way to help prevent the spread of the disease to Ontario farmed and wild cervids and protect public health,&#8221; said Ernie Hardeman, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. &#8220;We also encourage Ontario&#8217;s cervid farmers to follow the national guidelines for biosecurity to help protect their herds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CWD affects members of the cervid family &#8211; deer, elk, moose and caribou. While it has not been detected in Ontario, CWD was discovered in 2018 on a deer farm in Quebec, close to the Ontario border. It has also been found in all five states bordering Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We applaud the government for enacting these changes that will enable it to respond quickly and decisively to a detection of CWD,&#8221; said Angelo Lombardo, Executive Director, Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. &#8220;This is a necessary component of keeping Ontario CWD-free and something the OFAH has been seeking for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ontario&#8217;s new CWD Prevention and Response Plan will ensure the province has the right approaches in place to minimize the risk of the disease entering or spreading within Ontario.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2017, recreational deer hunting generated $275 million for Ontario\u2019s economy.<\/li>\n<li>The government conducts an annual CWD surveillance program, which helps detect the disease and minimize the risk of it entering the province.<\/li>\n<li>Since 2002, the government has tested more than 13,000 wild deer and elk for CWD; all test results have been negative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is taking action to help protect wildlife populations and ensure continued hunting opportunities in the province. The government has passed legislation and developed a plan to allow the Province to act quickly if wildlife diseases such as Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) &#8211; a progressive, fatal brain disorder that mostly affects deer and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2229],"class_list":["post-26851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-chronic-wasting-disease-cwd"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 12:42:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26852,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26851\/revisions\/26852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}