Parks Canada

Parks Canada recognizes the historic and ongoing responsibilities of Indigenous Peoples in the stewardship of natural and cultural heritage of their traditional territories. To this end, the Agency has been working to advance cooperative management with Indigenous peoples at the heritage places...

Parks Canada’s long-term goal is to establish at least one national marine conservation area in each of Canada’s marine regions. Once completed, the system of national marine conservation areas will represent Canada’s 29 marine regions spanning its three oceans and the Great Lakes. The purpose of...

Parks Canada supports Indigenous peoples and the implementation of S.35 rights for their ongoing use of traditional territories (including lands and waters) for traditional or modern cultural practices, in natural and cultural heritage places.

Contains a complete list of National Parks and National Historic Sites

Annual visitation statistics for national parks and national historic sites in Canada.

Canadian support for the protection and presentation of national parks and national historic sites (national telephone survey). Full report is available at: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/pwgsc-tpsgc/por-ef/parks_canada/2019/index.html

Benthic macro-invertebrate diversity, stream hydrology, water chemistry, climate, geology, and landcover are collected using a standard protocol for the assessment of stream condition. The overall scope or aim of this measure is the use of a reference condition approach model capable of assessing...

Elk Island National Park uses the Area Burned Condition Class (ABCC) method to evaluate the ecological impact of fire on the landscape and the success of utilizing fire to maintain a mosaic of vegetative composition and structure for healthier populations of native species. Area burned is derived...

In partnership with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Parks Canada monitors salmon populations on 5 key indicator streams by annually measuring the “escapement” value of salmon stocks in each watershed. ‘Escapement’ is the number of adult salmon that have escaped predation and...