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....

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...

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...

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...

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...