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The Initiative to Protect and Recover Endangered Whale Populations from anthropogenic threats (aka Federal Whales Initiative) was announced on June 22, 2018, by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Transport Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). This 5-year initiative (2018-2023)...

Peatlands cover approximately 12% of the Canadian landscape and play an important role in the carbon cycle through their centennial to millennial-scale storage of carbon under waterlogged and anoxic conditions. In recognizing the potential of these ecosystems as natural climate solutions and...

Knowledge of the location of Earth’s surface water in time and space is critical to inform policy decisions on environment, wildlife, and human security. Dynamic surface water maps generally represent water occurrence, also referred to as inundation frequency, depicting the percentage of valid...

This study examined the toxicity of aged oil sands tailings waste, and it's affect on eight species of freshwater aquatic organisms: Pimephales promelas (fathead minnow), Oryzias latipes (Japanese medaka), Hyalella azteca, Daphnia magna, Vibrio fischeri, Lampsilis cardium, Ceriodaphnia dubia, and...

This is a map of current snow basin indices across British Columbia. Snow basin index mapping is based on analysis from the River Forecast Centre, and is meant to accompany the Snow Conditions and Water Supply Bulletins that are published for data from January 1st, February 1st, March 1st, April...

The Canadian Hydrospatial Network (CHN) is an analysis-ready geospatial network of features that help enable the modelling of surface water flow in Canada. The six main layers and feature types are: flowlines, waterbodies, catchments, catchment aggregates, work units, and hydro nodes. Where...

This dataset covers the monitoring of changes in coastal dynamics in Forillon National Park. This measure consists of three field measurements: the rate and extent of shoreline displacement, monitored annually using benchmarks; the rate of change in the area of the various coastal types,...

The National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) is Canada's public inventory of pollutant releases (to air, water and land), disposals and transfers for recycling. This database contains the full NPRI dataset from 1993 to the current reporting year. To help you navigate, a Microsoft Word file...

On behalf of the Province of BC and as legislated by the Public Agency Accommodation Act, Real Property Division owns and leases approximately 1,040 buildings and 215 lands in 140 communities across BC. This list of properties (buildings and lands) includes properties outside of BC but does not...

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Water quality in Canadian rivers indicators provide a measure of the ability of river water across Canada to support...