Effective April 1, 2023: the Departments of Lands and Environment and Natural Resources have merged into one.

Resources

Publication date: 
January 2021
Resource Category: 
Land Use Planning, Public Land Use and Maps, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
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Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Public Land Act Summary
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December 2020
Resource Category: 
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
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Informational materials
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File
Description: 
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May 2020
Resource Category: 
Hunting, trapping and harvesting, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
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File
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Publication date: 
April 2020
Resource Category: 
Hunting, trapping and harvesting, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Hunters and Trappers Committees in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region set by-laws that govern Inuvialuit rights to harvest. These are your by-laws. They are enforced through the NWT Wildlife Act as required by the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.

Publication date: 
November 2019
Resource Category: 
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Les chasseurs qui tuent un cerf mulet ou un cerf de Virginie à l’extérieur des TNO doivent soumettre la carcasse de l’animal en question à des analyses de dépistage de la maladie débilitante chronique des cervidés.

Publication date: 
November 2019
Resource Category: 
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

New regulations require hunters who harvest mule or white-tailed deer outside the NWT border to have the animal tested for chronic wasting disease.

Publication date: 
November 2019
Resource Category: 
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Summary of new regulations to protect wildlife in the Northwest Territories (NWT)

Publication date: 
June 2019
Resource Category: 
Hunting, trapping and harvesting, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Sommaire des nouveaux règlements axés sur la protection de la faune aux Territoires du Nord-Ouest (TNO)

Publication date: 
June 2019
Resource Category: 
Hunting, trapping and harvesting, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is developing a Protected Areas Act to be used for the establishment of permanent protected areas in the Northwest Territories (NWT).

Publication date: 
April 2019
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File

Forest Act - Fact Sheet (pdf/4.59 MB)
Description: 

The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is developing a new Forest Act to amend and combine the existing Forest Management Act and the Forest Protection Act.

Publication date: 
April 2019
Resource Category: 
Forest resources, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File

Forest Act - Fact Sheet (pdf/4.59 MB)
Description: 

The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is making amendments to the Environmental Rights Act (ERA). The ERA works in combination with other GNWT legislation that permits, licenses or allows activities related to air, land and water use.

Publication date: 
April 2019
Resource Category: 
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Exporting Wildlife from the Northwest Territories What you need to know about taking big game meat, wildlife parts and products out of the Northwest Territories

Publication date: 
June 2018
Resource Category: 
Hunting, trapping and harvesting, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Fact sheet for engagement on the Draft Bathurst Caribou Range Plan.

Publication date: 
January 2018
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Updated Map 

Publication date: 
August 2017
Resource Category: 
Public Land Use and Maps, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Proposed NWT Air Regulatory Framework overview

Publication date: 
September 2016
Resource Category: 
Air quality, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Publication date: 
June 2016
Resource Category: 
Leases, Permits and Fees, Public Land Use and Maps, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File

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