At least once per year, COSEWIC meets to discuss and evaluate the status of Canadian wildlife species. Here you will find the List of Wildlife Species scheduled for the next COSEWIC Wildlife Species Assessment Meeting, the results of wildlife species assessment meeting, and the updated COSEWIC Canadian Wildlife Species at Risk Publication.

Assessment Process

• Assessment Process and Criteria
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  • Determining eligibility of wildlife species for status assessment.
  • COSEWIC quantitative criteria and guidelines for the status assessment of wildlife species.
  • Guidelines for modifying status assessment based on rescue effect.
  • Policy for modifying status assessment based on quantitative criteria.
  • COSEWIC wildlife species definition and status categories.
  • COSEWIC definitions associated with quantitative criteria.


• Status Appraisal Summary Process
  
  
• Status change definitions
  
  
• Wildlife Management Boards and the COSEWIC Status Assessment process
  
  
• COSEWIC Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge (ATK) Process and Protocols Guidelines
  
  

Upcoming Wildlife Species Assessments

COSEWIC meets at least once a year, usually in April or May, to consider new and updated reports and to make its status determinations (Upcoming Meetings).

Consult the COSEWIC Status Reports in Preparation to view a list of wildlife species sorted by expected date of wildlife species assessment.

Assessment Results (April 2013 COSEWIC Wildlife Species Assessment Meeting)

• Summary table of wildlife species assessments from the April 2013 COSEWIC meeting
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• Summary of COSEWIC wildlife species assessments for new wildlife species, and for reassessed wildlife species by type of change from a previous status, April 2013
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• COSEWIC Wildlife Species Assessments (short version), April 2013
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• COSEWIC Wildlife Species Assessments (detailed version), April 2013
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• COSEWIC assessments results with range of occurrence (by province, territory, or ocean), April 2013
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• Summary table of wildlife species assessed by COSEWIC
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Canadian Wildlife Species at Risk

All wildlife species assessed by COSEWIC as of October 2012.

The html version of this publication, which is best viewed on your computer screen, also includes minor revisions to COSEWIC information that occur throughout the year.

A formatted, print-ready (pdf) version of this publication is prepared at least annually. Register to be notified of updates to this publication.