Search For Species At Risk In Canada

Environment Canada's Canadian Wildlife Service offers information about species at risk in Canada. The status of these species is assigned by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). Conservation efforts for endangered, threatened, or extirpated species are implemented by the National Recovery Program (NRP).

The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political decision-making processes to improve policy outcomes by applying systematic evaluative rationality to the development and implementation of policy options. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the many ways in which the policy analysis movement has been conducted, and to what effect, in Canadian governments and, for the first time, in business associations, labour unions, universities, and other non-governmental organizations. Editors Laurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett, and David Laycock have brought together a wide range of contributors to address questions such as: What do policy analysts do? What techniques and approaches do they use? What is their influence on policy-making in Canada? Is there a policy analysis deficit? What norms and values guide the work done by policy analysts working in different institutional settings? Contributors focus on the sociology of policy analysis, demonstrating how analysts working in different organizations tend to have different interests and to utilize different techniques. They compare and analyze the significance of these different styles and approaches, and speculate about their impact on the policy process.

Summarizes the situation of several dozen species of Canadian wildlife faced with the very real possibility of extinction.

COSEWIC determines the national status of wild species, sub species and separate populations in Canada. All native fish, amphibians, reptiles, plants and animals are included. Freshwater and marine mollusks and lepidoptera are also covered. Three lists are maintained: species with designated status, current geographical occurrence and date listed; species examined and designated in the not at risk category; and species examined and designated in the data deficient category because of insufficient scientific information.

COSEWIC determines the national status of wild species, subspecies, varieties, or other designatable units that are considered to be at risk in Canada. This report presents the Committee's status designations on native species including the following taxonomic groups: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, arthropods, mollusks, and plants. The report includes summary tables as well as tables in the following categories: species with designated status, current geographical occurrence & date listed; species examined & designated in the not at risk category; and species examined & designated in the data deficient category because of insufficient scientific information. It also provides a short history of each species that has been reassessed by COSEWIC and a record of changes in common & scientific names of species.