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The wildlife of Canada or biodiversity of Canada consist of over 80,000 classified species, [a] and an equal number thought yet to be recognized. [3] Known fauna and flora have been identified from five kingdoms: [ 4 ] protozoa represent approximately 1% of recorded species; chromist (approximately 4); fungis (approximately 16%); plants ...
The most threatened wildlife species of Canada are listed in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk in accordance with the Canadian Species at Risk Act. About 65% of Canada’s resident species are considered "Secure". [4] Over 500 animal species are considered at risk in Canada. [5] More than 30 wildlife species have become extinct in the wild ...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Canada.There are approximately 200 mammal species in Canada. [1] Its large territorial size consist of fifteen terrestrial and five marine ecozones, ranging from oceanic coasts, to mountains to plains to urban housing, mean that Canada can harbour a great variety of species, including nearly half of the known cetaceans. [2]
Conservation status - IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: EX - extinct, EW - extinct in the wild CR - critically endangered, EN - endangered, VU - vulnerable NT - near threatened, LC - least concern DD - data deficient, NE - not evaluated (v. 2013.2, the data is current as of March 5, 2014 [1]) and Endangered Species Act: E - endangered, T ...
The List of Wildlife Species at Risk currently has more than 800 entries for Canadian wild life species considered vulnerable; including 363 classified as endangered species, —190 threatened species, —235 special concern, and 22 extirpated (no longer found in the wild). [1] About 65 percent of Canada's resident species are considered ...
Nunavut has several species of mammals (ᐱᓱᒃᑎ, pisukti), [1] of which the Inuit found use for almost all. The larger animals such as the caribou would be eaten, with the skin used for tents and clothing and the sinew used for thread. In lean times even animals such as the fox would have been eaten and some people did eat it even when ...
California myotis (Myotis californicus) Townsend's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii). Fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes) LC; Long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis) LC; Northern long-eared myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) NT
Animals in Canada (4 C) Fauna of Atlantic Canada (5 C, 26 P) E. Fauna of Eastern Canada (6 C, 2 P) G. Fauna of the Great Lakes region (North America) (1 C, 87 P)