Species at risk: latest publications and news

Publications

March 2025

• 2025-03-29 Description of critical habitat of Broad-banded Forestsnail in Point Pelee National Park of Canada
• 2025-03-17 Recovery Strategy for the Acuteleaf Small Limestone Moss (Seligeria acutifolia) in Canada [Final version]
• 2025-03-15 Description of Bicknell’s Thrush critical habitat in the St. Paul Island National Wildlife Area
• 2025-03-15 Description of Roseate Tern critical habitat in the Country Island National Wildlife Area
• 2025-03-13 Management Plan for the Cassin’s Auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) in Canada [Proposed]
• 2025-03-13 Recovery Strategy for the Gibson’s Big Sand Tiger Beetle (Cicindela formosa gibsoni) in Canada [Final]
• 2025-03-13 Recovery Strategy for the Eastern Banded Tigersnail (Anguispira kochi kochi) in Canada [Final]
• 2025-03-11 COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Kirtland’s Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii in Canada
• 2025-03-11 Amending Agreement to the Canada British Columbia Conservation Agreement for Southern Mountain Caribou in British Columbia
• 2025-03-10 Multi-species Action Plan for the Richelieu River Watershed in Canada [Final]
• 2025-03-07 Consultation on the listing of the Dezadeash, Squanga, and Little Teslin whitefish species pairs under the Species at Risk Act
• 2025-03-07 Management Plan for the Baird’s Sparrow (Ammodramus bairdii) in Canada [Final version]
• 2025-03-07 Management Plan for the Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis) in Canada [Final version]
• 2025-03-07 Recovery Strategy for the Golden-eye Lichen (Teloschistes chrysophthalmus), Great Lakes population, in Canada [Proposed]
• 2025-03-04 Multi-species Action Plan for Prince Edward Island National Park of Canada and National Historic Sites Administered by Parks Canada on PEI

February 2025

• 2025-02-27 Recovery Strategy for the Broad-banded Forestsnail (Allogona profunda) in Canada [Final version]
• 2025-02-27 Recovery Strategy for the Downy Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria virginica) in Canada [Final version]
• 2025-02-27 Recovery Strategy for the Hairy Valerian (Valeriana edulis ssp. ciliata) in Canada [Proposed]
• 2025-02-20 Recovery Strategy for the False-foxglove Sun Moth (Pyrrhia aurantiago), the Fern-leaved Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria pedicularia) and the Smooth Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria flava) in Canada [Final version]
• 2025-02-17 Consultation on Amending the List of Species under the Species at Risk Act: Aquatic Species January 2025
• 2025-02-12 Amending Agreement to the Intergovernmental Partnership Agreement for the Conservation of the Central Group of the Southern Mountain Caribou
• 2025-02-12 Second Amending Agreement to the Intergovernmental Partnership Agreement for the Conservation of the Central Group of the Southern Mountain Caribou
• 2025-02-12 Critical Habitat of the Redside Dace (Clinostomus elongatus) Order: Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 159, Number 4
• 2025-02-06 Management Plan for the Anticosti Aster (Symphyotrichum anticostense) in Canada [Proposed]
• 2025-02-06 Management Plan for the Mountain Crab-eye (Acroscyphus sphaerophoroides) in Canada [Final]

January 2025

• 2025-01-17 Consultation on Amending the List of Species under the Species at Risk Act: Terrestrial Species January 2025
• 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

News

2025

• 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