Endangered Species Profiles

Wild plants and animals give humans so much – from food and medicine, to healthy ecosystems and spiritual nourishment. Wild species clean the air and water, nourish the soil, maintain the carbon balance in the atmosphere, remove pollutants and prevent waste accumulation. The benefits, what some call ecosystem services, are essential to human life on this planet.

Today, 668 species are classified by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) as being at risk.

Get to know these beautiful creatures. More endangered species profiles will be added regularly.

• Blanding's Turtle
• Burrowing Owl
• Common Nighthawk
• Eastern cougar
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Gray Ratsnake
• Great Blue Heron fannini subspecies
• Greater Sage-Grouse
• Horned Grebe
• Killer Whale
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Long-billed Curlew
• McCown's Longspur
• Northern Leopard Frog
• Ord’s kangaroo rat
• Porbeagle shark
• Rusty Blackbird
• Short-eared Owl
• Small-flowered Sand-verbena
• Sprague's Pipit
• Tiny Cryptanthe
• Western Harvest Mouse
• Whip-poor-will
• Whooping crane
• Wolverine, Eastern population
• Woodland caribou