Bowman Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
- Bowman Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Infobox_protected_area | name = Bowman Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
iucn_category = IV
caption = Map of Canada
locator_x =
locator_y =
location = Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
nearest_city =
lat_degrees = 65
lat_minutes = 42
lat_seconds = 9
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73
long_minutes = 29
long_seconds = 30
long_direction = W
area = 107,900 hectares
established = 1957-01-01
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visitation_year =
governing_body = Nunavut
Bowman Bay Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary on western Baffin Island within part of the Great Plain of the Koukdjuak in Northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. [cite web |url=http://www.bsc-eoc.org/iba/site.jsp?siteID=NU078 |title=Site Description |accessdate=2008-09-06 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=bsc-eoc.or] It is classified as Category IV (Habitat/Species Management Area) under the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Geography
At 107,900 hectares in size, [cite web |url=http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=18706&level=nat |title=Bowman Bay (Site Code: 18706) |accessdate=2008-09-06 |publisher=World Commission on Protected Areas] the sanctuary is located on the eastern shore of Foxe Basin at convert|0|m|ft above sea level, and its size is convert|1079|km2|sqmi.
History and conservation
During J. Dewey Soper's 1928-31 Arctic expedition in this area, he located the Blue Goose ("C. c. caerulescens") nesting grounds on Bluegoose Plain by Bowman Bay. [cite web |url=http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:ODO88vsg8RMJ:elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v069n04/p0425-p0428.pdf+%22blue+goose%22+bowman+bay&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us |title=Hybridization of Canada Geese with Blue Geese in the Wild |publisher=unm.edu |accessdate=2008-01-20] The wildlife sanctuary was established in 1957-01-01. It received national legal protection under the Wildlife Act of 2003.
The sanctuary protects marine and intertidal wildlife.[cite web |url=http://www.mpaglobal.org/index.php?action=showMain&site_code=18706 |title=Bowman Bay |accessdate=2008-09-06 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=mpaglobal.org] Industrial activities and hunting are prohibited. [cite web |url=http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/v073n01/p0096-p0106.html |title=The status of waterfowl conservation Wilson Ornithological Society Conservation Committee |accessdate=2008-09-06 |journal=Wilson Ornithological Society Conservation Committee |volume=73 |number=1 |date=1961 |work= |publisher=unm.edu] ]References
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