Species at risk: latest publications and news

Publications

August 2024

• 2024-08-31 Description of critical habitat of Redside Dace in Rouge National Urban Park of Canada
• 2024-08-29 Recovery Strategy and Action Plan for the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) in Canada (Lake Erie and Lake Ontario populations) [Proposed]
• 2024-08-29 Recovery Strategy for the Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) in Canada [Final version]
• 2024-08-29 Recovery Strategy for the Quebec Rockcress (Boechera quebecensis) in Canada [Proposed]
• 2024-08-02 Questions and Answers for Federal Land Managers: Monarch reclassification from “Special Concern” to “Endangered” under the Species at Risk Act

July 2024

• 2024-07-29 Order Summary: Order Amending Schedule 1 to the Species at Risk Act - Eastern Wolf
• 2024-07-29 Recovery Strategy and Action Plan for the Redside Dace (Clinostomus elongatus) in Canada
• 2024-07-11 A Species at Risk Act section 11 Conservation Agreement to Support the Recovery of the Southern Resident Killer Whale
• 2024-07-11 Amended Recovery Strategy for the Jefferson Salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum) and the Unisexual Ambystoma, Jefferson Salamander dependent population (Ambystoma laterale - (2) jeffersonianum) in Canada [Final version]
• 2024-07-11 Amended Recovery Strategy for the Spotted Owl caurina subspecies (Strix occidentalis caurina) in Canada [Proposed]
• 2024-07-11 Management Plan for Pitcher’s Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) in Canada [Final version]
• 2024-07-03 Order Amending Schedule 1 to the Species at Risk Act: SOR/2024-135

June 2024

• 2024-06-29 Notice of intent to develop an emergency order to provide for the protection of Caribou, Boreal population (boreal caribou) in Quebec under section 80 of the Species at Risk Act
• 2024-06-24 Northern Brook Lamprey (Saskatchewan – Nelson River population): Consultations on listing under the Species at Risk Act
• 2024-06-19 Discussion Paper: Proposed scope of an Order under section 80 of the Species at Risk Act to provide for the Protection of Caribou, Boreal population (Rangifer tarandus)
  • 2024-06-19 Addressing Imminent Threats to Boreal Caribou in Quebec – Consultation Survey
• 2024-06-19 Order Amending Schedule 1 to the Species at Risk Act (Chestnut-collared Longspur and Nine Other Wildlife Species): SOR/2024-123
• 2024-06-18 Recovery Strategy and Action Plan for the Silver Chub (Macrhybopsis storeriana), Great Lakes – Upper St. Lawrence populations, in Canada [Proposed]
• 2024-06-13 Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) : Your obligations as a property owner
• 2024-06-07 Management Plan for the Northern Sunfish (Lepomis peltastes) in Canada (Great Lakes – Upper St. Lawrence Populations)
• 2024-06-07 Progress report on steps taken for protection of critical habitat for species at risk in Canada (October 2023 – March 2024)

News

2024

• 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

2020

• 2020-08-04 Government of Canada protecting species-at-risk habitat in British Columbia