Parks Canada

Parks Canada’s National Program for Ecological Corridors was initiated to strengthen the network of protected areas across Canada through the creation of ecological corridors. To achieve this goal, Parks Canada sought out to develop tools for a common approach on corridor creation and management....

The Guidelines on the Administration of National Parks of Canada Land Use Planning Regulations establishes how Parks Canada exercises its authority under the National Parks of Canada Land Use Planning Regulations to administer its land use planning application review process, which guides Parks...

This report on the forest ecosystems of 31 predominantly forested national parks is the first in the Carbon Atlas series. Parks Canada has undertaken the development of a series of Carbon Atlases as part of an effort to create a more comprehensive picture of the amount and density of carbon...

This report describes the sixth field season of a multi-year Parks Canada-led search for the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, lost during the Sir John Franklin Expedition of 1845 in search of a Northwest Passage. As well, it describes the September 2014 discovery of the wreck of HMS Erebus....

Canada faced its most unprecedented fire season on record in 2023, challenging wildland fire management agencies from across the country. The Parks Canada National Fire Management Program 2023 Annual Report gives a brief snapshot of the important work of the program and the people who are behind it.

Strategic environmental assessments (SEA) provide a comprehensive and systematic approach to incorporating broad-scale environmental considerations from multiple sources into strategic-level planning and policy documents. Parks Canada conducts SEAs on all national park, national marine...

Parks Canada’s Preapproved Routine Impact Assessments (PRIA) are approved environmental management and mitigation measures for defined classes of routine, repetitive projects or activities with well understood and predictable effects. They are intended to maximize efficiency, consistency and...

Parks Canada Agency led a series of climate change adaptation workshops across Canada from 2017 to 2019, with support from the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Culture and Heritage Table. The workshops aimed to identify the pressing impacts of climate change on cultural resources at select heritage...

In 2022, scientists from Parks Canada, Audubon, the Canadian Wildlife Service and Birds Canada published an analysis of projected changes in bird assemblages due to climate change within the Canadian National Park System (Gahbauer et al. 2022, Projected changes in birds assemblages due to climate...

This document describes Parks Canada’s plan to implement the Directive on Open Government in order to better engage citizens in the protection and presentation of places that represent Canada’s natural and cultural heritage. This plan is based on a Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) template, and...