BIAS-K is a geospatial application that highlights projects and case studies across Canada that bridge multiple ways of knowing. 

As a learning tool, BIAS-K helps to make key information accessible from published case studies and community-led projects that explore environmental topics.

BIAS-K was developed by Fisheries and Oceans Canada with the vital collaboration of Indigenous Peoples and federal colleagues.

BIAS-K is a geospatial application that highlights projects and case studies across Canada that bridge multiple ways of knowing. 

As a learning tool, BIAS-K helps to make key information accessible from published case studies and community-led projects that explore environmental topics.

BIAS-K was developed by Fisheries and Oceans Canada with the vital collaboration of Indigenous Peoples and federal colleagues.

BIAS-K is a geospatial application that highlights projects and case studies across Canada that bridge multiple ways of knowing. 

As a learning tool, BIAS-K helps to make key information accessible from published case studies and community-led projects that explore environmental topics.

BIAS-K was developed by Fisheries and Oceans Canada with the vital collaboration of Indigenous Peoples and federal colleagues.

Over the next five years, Can-Peat will quantify the potential of peatland management in Canada to contribute to climate change mitigation. The research supports Canada's commitment to reach net-zero emissions economy by 2050. Specific objectives are to: 

1. Create a Canada-wide peatland research network   

2. Compile a database on peatland carbon stocks, greenhouse gas exchange, and supporting data across Canada

3. Advance models of peatland carbon cycling from site to national scale and use these models to evaluate future peatland greenhouse gas uptake or emission under changing climate and disturbance regimes 

4. Investigate mechanisms to implement peatland nature-based solutions in Canada and develop a decision-support framework for peatland management 

5. Communicate findings to partners and provide the tools needed for climate-friendly peatland management and greenhouse gas emission reporting related to these activities. 

Can-Peat: Canada's peatlands as nature-based climate solutions is funded through the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund. Administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada, $15.8 million is being allocating to six University of Waterloo research projects to identify solutions to environmental challenges. Nationally the Climate Action Awareness Fund was part of a $58 million announcement by Minister Guilbeault for research projects that will advance science and technology to combat climate change.

The National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC), which launched in 2018 under Canada’s federal action plan for boreal caribou, was a forum for knowledge sharing, knowledge generation, and knowledge mobilization. The NBCKC was coordinated by a secretariat within Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) from June 2018 to March 2026. As coordination by ECCC comes to an end, the group is exploring ways that it might continue. Any updates related to the main table of the NBCKC will be posted here.

Members of the NBCKC represented federal, provincial and territorial governments, Wildlife Management Boards, Indigenous Peoples and communities, industry, environmental non-governmental organizations, and academic researchers. Several representatives who were part of the NBCKC were also members of a parallel body known as the Indigenous Knowledge Circle (IKC). The IKC advocated for the respectful inclusion of Indigenous Knowledge, supported the transition towards Indigenous-led management to support the recovery of caribou, and provided opportunities for learning about what is working and not working in Indigenous contexts.

The NBCKC also included several working groups and knowledge networks that were formed to assess what we already know, to ask what we still need to know, and to determine how to apply what we know to maximize caribou conservation and recovery goals. These groups included:

• The Monitoring Working Group
• The Habitat Restoration Working Group
• The Population Management Working Group
• The Caribou Health Knowledge Network

The NBCKC set ambitious targets and deadlines in order to resolve knowledge gaps by developing impactful guidance meant to inform caribou managers as they structure their respective programs. They built a powerful interactive map and populated it with over 100 caribou projects, the majority of which involve Indigenous peoples. Despite boasting a large membership consisting of keen, skilled, and focused individuals, the NBCKC was able to reach even higher levels of relevance and impact by joining their efforts with those of other initiatives. 

Follow this link to browse the repository of newsletters, guidance documents, best practices, tool kits and other resources that were developed collaboratively by the NBCKC.

Learn more about the NBCKC by visiting their interactive story map, available in English and French!

This is a webinar series hosted by the Canadian Conservation and Land Management (CCLM) knowledge network on topics related to land management, wetlands, and boreal caribou conservation in Canada. At each webinar, experts in their fields share knowledge and expertise of value to practitioners and managers. The webinars are recorded so that they can be viewed by those who were unable to attend the live event. Webinars held to date are:

• Advancing Conservation Outcomes Through Research, Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange - October 28, 2021
• Monitoring Environmental Impacts Through Remote Sensing - February 17, 2022

• The Application of Drone and Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle Technology in Conservation Work - February 28, 2023

• Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Expert Panel on Canada's Carbon Sink Potential - May 24, 2023

• Intensive Forest Management Across Canada: Panel Discussion - November 8, 2023

• 2030 Nature Strategy: Panel Discussion - September 5, 2024

• Wildfire: Panel Discussion - February 27, 2025

• Ecosystem Mapping - May 6, 2025

This is a webinar series hosted by the Canadian Conservation and Land Management (CCLM) knowledge network on topics related to land management, wetlands, and boreal caribou conservation in Canada. At each webinar, experts in their fields share knowledge and expertise of value to practitioners and managers. The webinars are recorded so that they can be viewed by those who were unable to attend the live event. Webinars held to date are:

• Advancing Conservation Outcomes Through Research, Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange - October 28, 2021
• Monitoring Environmental Impacts Through Remote Sensing - February 17, 2022

• The Application of Drone and Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle Technology in Conservation Work - February 28, 2023

• Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Expert Panel on Canada's Carbon Sink Potential - May 24, 2023

• Intensive Forest Management Across Canada: Panel Discussion - November 8, 2023

• 2030 Nature Strategy: Panel Discussion - September 5, 2024

• Wildfire: Panel Discussion - February 27, 2025

• Ecosystem Mapping - May 6, 2025

This is a webinar series hosted by the Canadian Conservation and Land Management (CCLM) knowledge network on topics related to land management, wetlands, and boreal caribou conservation in Canada. At each webinar, experts in their fields share knowledge and expertise of value to practitioners and managers. The webinars are recorded so that they can be viewed by those who were unable to attend the live event. Webinars held to date are:

• Advancing Conservation Outcomes Through Research, Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange - October 28, 2021
• Monitoring Environmental Impacts Through Remote Sensing - February 17, 2022

• The Application of Drone and Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle Technology in Conservation Work - February 28, 2023

• Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Expert Panel on Canada's Carbon Sink Potential - May 24, 2023

• Intensive Forest Management Across Canada: Panel Discussion - November 8, 2023

• 2030 Nature Strategy: Panel Discussion - September 5, 2024

• Wildfire: Panel Discussion - February 27, 2025

• Ecosystem Mapping - May 6, 2025

The aim of the CAN-SAR Database is to provide open and accessible data reflecting information obtained from Canadian species at risk listing and recovery planning documents. Ongoing efforts include development of a living database that will facilitate contributions from other parties in an effort to increase efficiencies and decrease multiple (redundant) efforts with the broad over-arching goal of improving the conservation of species at risk.

NOTE: The current version of CAN-SAR includes data from documents available as of March 23, 2021 for species listed under Schedule 1 of SARA as Special Concern, Threatened, or  Endangered. For the authoritative source of current species at risk information please consult the SARA Public Registry.

Please see the article CAN-SAR: A Database of Canadian Species at Risk Information for more comprehensive information. 

The aim of the CAN-SAR Database is to provide open and accessible data reflecting information obtained from Canadian species at risk listing and recovery planning documents. Ongoing efforts include development of a living database that will facilitate contributions from other parties in an effort to increase efficiencies and decrease multiple (redundant) efforts with the broad over-arching goal of improving the conservation of species at risk.

NOTE: The current version of CAN-SAR includes data from documents available as of March 23, 2021 for species listed under Schedule 1 of SARA as Special Concern, Threatened, or  Endangered. For the authoritative source of current species at risk information please consult the SARA Public Registry.

Please see the article CAN-SAR: A Database of Canadian Species at Risk Information for more comprehensive information.