Species at risk: latest publications and news

Publications

February 2025

• 2026-02-09 Report on the Progress of Recovery Strategy Implementation for the Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) in Canada (Ontario Populations) for the Period 2017 to 2022

January 2026

• 2026-01-30 Consultation on Amending the List of Species under the Species at Risk Act: Aquatic Species January 2026
• 2026-01-30 Lilliput: Consultations on down-listing on the List of Wildlife Species at Risk
• 2026-01-26 Report on the Progress of Management Plan Implementation for Sowerby’s Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon bidens) in Canada for the Period 2017 to 2022
• 2026-01-26 Report on the Progress of Management Plan Implementation for the Green Sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) in Canada for the period 2017 to 2021
• 2026-01-26 Report on the Progress of Management Plan Implementation for the Shorthead Sculpin (Cottus confusus) in Canada for the Period 2019 to 2023
• 2026-01-26 Report on the Progress of Recovery Strategy Implementation for the Lake Utopia Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus mordax), Small-bodied Population (sympatric with the Large-bodied Population) in Canada, for the Period 2016 to 2023
• 2026-01-13 Consultation on Amending the List of Species under the Species at Risk Act: Terrestrial Species January 2026
• 2026-01-13 COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Black-tailed Prairie Dog Cynomys ludovicianus in Canada
• 2026-01-13 COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Northern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon ampullatus Davis Strait-Baffin Bay-Labrador Sea population Scotian Shelf population in Canada
• 2026-01-13 COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus caurinus subspecies – Limnodromus griseus caurinus hendersoni/griseus – Limnodromus griseus hendersoni/griseus in Canada
  • See more COSEWIC status reports published on January 13
• 2026-01-13 Cupped Fringe Lichen: Ministerial response statement (2026)
• 2026-01-13 Greenland Shark: Ministerial response statement (2026)
• 2026-01-13 Macropis Cuckoo Bee: Ministerial response statement (2026)
  • See more Ministerial response statements published on January 13

December 2025 

• 2025-12-19 Progress Report on Steps Taken for Protection of Critical Habitat for Species at Risk in Canada (April 2025 to September 2025)
• 2025-12-17 Order Acknowledging Receipt of the Assessment Done Under Subsection 23(1) of the Species at Risk Act (American Eel)
• 2025-12-17 List of Wildlife Species at Risk (Decision Not to Add Certain Species) Order (American Eel)
• 2025-12-15 Recovery Strategy for the Mountain Sucker (Catostomus platyrhynchus), Milk River populations, in Canada [Proposed]
• 2025-12-13 Description of critical habitat of Channel Darter, Lake Erie population, in Point Pelee National Park of Canada
• 2025-12-13 Description of Nuttall’s Sheep Moth critical habitat in the Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area and Vaseux Lake Bird Sanctuary
• 2025-12-11 Management Plan for the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) (St. Lawrence populations) in Canada [Proposed]
• 2025-12-10 Amended Recovery Strategy and Amended Action Plan for the Piping Plover melodus subspecies (Charadrius melodus melodus) in Canada [Proposed]
• 2025-12-04 Multi-species Action Plan for Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site of Canada and National Historic Sites Administered by Parks Canada in Mainland Nova Scotia [Proposed]
• 2025-12-02 Legal Protection Statement for the Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus bohemicus) in Kluane National Park Reserve of Canada
• 2025-12-02 Progress Towards Implementation of the Recovery Strategy and Action Plan for Sable Island Sweat Bee
• 2025-12-01 Engagement and consultation regarding the potential listings of three Southern BC Chinook salmon designatable units under the Species at Risk Act

News

2025

• 2025-06-13 The Ville de Longueuil (the city of Longueuil) ordered to pay $30,000 for damaging or destroying at least one Bobolink nest
• 2025-04-30 Two Quebec-based companies and two individuals fined a total of $35,000 for violating the Species at Risk Act
• 2025-01-17 The Minister of the Environment's Response to Species at Risk Assessments submitted by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) on October 21, 2024
• 2025-01-15 Government of Canada designates Nova Scotia’s Country Island, Isle Haute, and St. Paul Island as Canada’s newest National Wildlife Areas

2024

• 2024-12-13 The Commission de la capitale nationale was ordered to pay a total of $75,000 for having violated the Species at Risk Act
• 2024-09-06 Supporting habitat stewardship projects for Monarchs and other species at risk in Ontario and across Canada
• 2024-08-30 Government of Canada invests more than $4.9 million to protect significant habitats in Mauricie
• 2024-08-21 Canadian and Colombian Environment Ministers Meet to Share International Leadership Ambition on Nature and Biodiversity
• 2024-08-07 Canada invests over $12.5 million to increase conserved areas primarily in southern Ontario
• 2024-07-18 Protecting nature in British Columbia and across Canada to help fight climate change and protect biodiversity
• 2024-07-08 A Quebec company was fined $12,500 for destroying nests of Bank Swallows, a threatened species
• 2024-07-08 Governments of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador announce new priority place to conserve species at risk
• 2024-06-27 Government of Canada announces funding for Indigenous communities to protect species at risk and their habitats
• 2024-06-20 Canada is supporting habitat stewardship projects for Monarchs and pollinators in southern Ontario
• 2024-06-19 Following the Government of Quebec’s failure, the federal government begins consultations on an emergency order to protect caribou
• 2024-05-16 Federal and Ontario governments agree to significant collaboration on caribou conservation
• 2024-05-10 Government of Canada releases report on national efforts toward Boreal Caribou recovery
• 2024-03-12 Canada and Ontario commit to significant collaboration on shared nature conservation goals
• 2024-03-11 Governments of Canada and Ontario join together to announce funding and collaboration for conservation areas in Ontario
• 2024-03-04 Empowering key regional environmental groups to protect habitats and species at risk in Quebec and across Canada
• 2024-03-04 List of 56 Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk projects 2023–2024
• 2024-02-14 Government of Canada invests $3 million in citizen science and open data for birds and biodiversity
• 2024-01-31 Forty-two Indigenous-led conservation projects across Canada receive federal funding to protect more nature

2022

• 2022-03-31 Bill S-6, An Act respecting regulatory modernization