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April Monthly Meeting 2022

Mon, Apr 18

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Online Event

Jennifer Heron, Co-chair Arthropods Specialist Subcommittee, COSEWIC/BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy - "The role of COSEWIC in assessing species at risk in Canada with a focus on prairie grassland species" This will be an online event only, please register for the link.

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April Monthly Meeting 2022
April Monthly Meeting 2022

Time & Location

Apr 18, 2022, 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

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About the Event

Jennifer Heron, Co-chair Arthropods Specialist Subcommittee, COSEWIC/British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy - "The role of COSEWIC in assessing species at risk in Canada with a focus on prairie grassland species"

The status of species at risk in Canada is assessed by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC): a committee of composed of 31 voting members, including representatives from each of the 13 provincial and territorial government wildlife agencies, four federal agencies, three non-government science members, one Co-chair from the Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge (ATK) Subcommittee, and 10 Co-chairs of the Species Specialist Subcommittees (SSCs). To date, there have been  >1200 wildlife species assessed by COSEWIC, including > 280 from within the prairie ecosystems of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. COSEWIC considers candidate species for priority assessment, however there are numerous challenges to assessing the lesser known and poorly documented species groups, such as…

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