Program directory · Environment and Climate Change Canada

Habitat Conservation and Protection

Department

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Program code

BGT03 (EC)

Core responsibility

Conserving Nature

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

The objective of the HCP Program is to secure, protect, connect, improve and restore ecologically sensitive habitat, including wetlands, to contribute to the conservation and protection of migratory birds, species at risk and other wildlife, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In collaboration with other levels of government, Indigenous organizations, private land owners, non-government organizations, ecological gift donors and recipients, industry, and a range of protected area users, the Program implements a range of initiatives including the Protected Area Program, the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, the Ecological Gifts Program, the Spaces Stream of the Canada Nature Fund (the Natural Heritage Conservation Program, the Target 1 Challenge, the Indigenous Guardians Pilot Program, Indigenous-led Area Based Conservation program, and Nature Smart Climate Solutions Fund Indigenous Partnership stream), contributes to the Ramsar Convention (an international wetlands conservation treaty) and co-chairs, with British Columbia, the Federal – Provincial/Territorial (FPT) and Indigenous collaborative initiative called the National Steering Committee to Pathway to Target 1. Certifying ecological gifts, providing funding to secure, connect, improve and restore lands

and managing and expanding the network of protected areas is important for helping Canada achieve its Pathway to Target 1 and climate change mitigation objectives.

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).

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.