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Checklists

• Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador 

Floras

• A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants 

General

• North America's Best Kept Secret: Conserving Newfoundland's Rare Limestone Barrens Flora  By Luise Hermanutz.
• Rare Plants  "Research ... Dr. Luise Hermanutz with the Rare Braya". From the MUN Gazette.

Legislation

• An Act Respecting the Protection of Endangered Species  [Statutes of Newfoundland and Labrador 2001: Chapter E-10.1]
• Botanical Ecological Reserve Regulations under the Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act  [Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 64/97]
• Endangered Species List: Regulations under the Endangered Species Act  [Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 57/02]

Organizations, Groups and Conservation Initiatives

• Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre  
• COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) 
• Wild Species 2000: The General Status of Species in Canada 

Parks and Reserves

• Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve Order, 2000, under the Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act  The Order in Council setting up Burnt Cape as a permanent ecological reserve.
• Ed Andrews and Keith Nicol  Two Sir Wilfred Grenfell College professors have developed a training and resource manual for guides at the Burnt Island Ecological Reserve
• Interpreting Burnt Island Reserve 
• Nature Conservancy of Canada presents Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve as Gift to Canadians  Newfoundland Government press release
• Premier and minister announce a new permanent ecological reserve at Burnt Cape  Newfoundland Government press release.

Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species

• Astragale de Robbins variété de Fernald  Excellent page on Fernald's Milk-vetch [Astragalus robbinsii var. fernaldii] [FRENCH]
• Barrens Willow: Salix jejuna 
• Fernald's Braya  Environment Canada site.
• Fernald's Milk-vetch  Environment Canada site.
• Long's Braya  A wild mustard known from only three small populations in the Strait of Belle Isle.
• Long's Braya  Environment Canada site.
• National Recovery Plan for Long’s Braya and Fernald’s Braya  Official report. [pdf file]. See also: the HTML version - but this may require Internet Explorer for all text formatting to work.
• Official release of the National Recovery Plan for Long’s Braya and Fernald’s Braya  Newfoundland Government press release.
• Stewardship agreements to be signed for conservation of limestone barrens habitat and species at risk  Newfoundland Government press release.