Jurisdiction4

The term jurisdiction refers to the law enforcing actions of a governing authority. There are many different levels of jurisdiction ranging from the family/home to an international scale. Among the various levels there are 3 main types of jurisdiction practice: Personal, Territorial, and Subject matter.

National parks, such as Banff, fall under federal authority. The Canadian government has signed international treaties as well as enforcing their own management plans and laws regarding the protection of Banff National Park’s diversity and integrity. Below is a sample from Parks Canada’s management plan that shows the main objectives of jurisdiction within the park:

**// 8.5.2 Objectives //**
· to maximize the ecological integrity of the Central Rockies Ecosystem;

· to manage the type and extent of access to the park;

· to pursue regional limits to growth and numbers of visitors;

· to pursue the heritage tourism model as the basis for a broader concept of tourism in the Bow Valley;

· to ensure the protection of wildlife corridors and habitat;

· to pursue cooperative research and information management; and

· to reduce wildlife mortality through the joint management of specific wildlife species, particularly bears and wolves. //-(//// Parks Canada – Banff National Park Management Plan, [] ) //

The 1999 national State of Protected Heritage Areas report and the 2003 State of the Park report for Banff National Park is in the process of developing a national monitoring system for Banff. The basic framework for the monitoring system is displayed in the image below:

**Parks Canada’s management plan for Banff National Park**: []

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 * UN Convention on Biological Diversity(1992)**: