Canada’s Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) just completed its 53rd species assessment meeting in Wendake, Québec (April 27-May 1). Here, we assessed the conservation status of 20 wildlife species as required under Canada’s Species at Risk Act.
Canada’s Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) just completed its 53rd species assessment meeting in Wendake, Québec (April 27-May 1). Here, we assessed the conservation status of 20 wildlife species as required under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. Wildlife species assessed included the Haida Ermine, a weasel found only on British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii, which was assessed as Special Concern, and the North Pacific Right Whale which was assessed as Endangered.
Vivid dancer (Argia vivida) by Flickr user Tab Tannery.
There are now more than 700 wildlife species that have been assessed at some level of risk in Canada (Extirpated, Endangered, Threatened, or Special Concern) since COSEWIC began assessments in 1978. The press release detailing all the recent assessment results, including six other BC wildlife species from a moss to a bird, can be found here.
Photo credits: [thumbnail] Western rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus) photo by Flickr user ap2il.
[banner]: Black swift (Cypseloides niger) photo by Flickr user Bryant Olsen.