Program directory · Environment and Climate Change Canada

Species at Risk

Department

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Program code

BGT01 (EC)

Core responsibility

Conserving Nature

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The Species at Risk (SAR) Program aims to prevent wildlife species from extirpation or extinction; it provides for the recovery of extirpated, endangered or threatened wildlife species, and manages species of special concern to prevent them from becoming endangered or threatened. SAR Program activities include supporting the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada’s assessment of species; listing species under the Species at Risk Act; developing recovery documents for SAR; protecting SAR and their critical habitat; development and delivery of stewardship programs and actions to achieve conservation objectives; compliance promotion and enforcement; and tracking and reporting on recovery outcomes. The Government of Canada also continues to implement the Pan-Canadian Approach to Transforming Species at Risk Conservation in Canada, in partnership with federal, provincial, and territorial governments, Indigenous peoples, and stakeholders, by complementing independent actions on single species with multi-species and ecosystems-based actions, focused on a set of shared priority places, species, and sectors across Canada. The approach enables conservation partners to work together to achieve better outcomes for SAR.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.