Victorin’s gentian COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 10

Existing Protection or Other Status Designations

In 1987, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) designated Victorin’s gentian as a “species of special concern”. The organization NatureServe has assigned Victorin’s gentian a global rank of G2, a Canadian rank of N2 and a Quebec rank of S2 (NatureServe 2001). Argus and Pryer (1990) consider it to be rare in Canada and assign it a Canadian priority of 1.

Two localities (Anse Saint-Vallier and Grosse-Île) are within the boundaries of protected areas: the Saint-Vallier Migratory Bird Sanctuary and the Grosse-Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site. Other ill-defined historic populations may also occur within the boundaries of protected territories: the L'Islet, Cap-Saint-Ignace and Trois-Saumons migratory bird sanctuaries. In addition, the organization Conservation de la nature Québec owns part of the site on which the Pointe de Saint-Vallier population at Saint-Vallier occurs.

In Quebec, Victorin’s gentian was designated as a “threatened” species in February 2001 and is now protected under the Quebec Act Respecting Threatened or Vulnerable Species.

Its habitat is protected from the impacts of the most serious threat to its survival under the Regulation Respecting Motor Vehicle Traffic in Certain Fragile Environments (R.S.Q., c. Q-2, r.2.2). The Quebec policy respecting the protection of lakeshores, riverbanks, littoral zones and floodplains seeks to maintain and improve the stream water quality by ensuring a minimum adequate level of shoreline protection.

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