Invasive alien species in Canada

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Invasive alien species in Canada indicator reports the number of federally regulated invasive alien species that have become established in Canada since 2012. Species are considered "established" when a reproducing population exists in Canada and any eradication efforts have been abandoned. Regulation of potentially invasive species is intended to prevent their introduction and establishment in Canada. Species are added to the list of regulated species based on an analysis of risk. The indicator reports on species establishment since January 2012. With the implementation of the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy, this type of information began to be collected consistently across multiple programs, allowing information to be combined for the first time into a single indicator despite the varying approaches used to control different groups of invasive alien species. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for data sources and details on how those data were collected and how the indicator was calculated.



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File Identifier
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Date Stamp
2025-03-11T18:21:35.021Z
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators

www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators
 

Data identification

Title

Invasive alien species in Canada
Date (Publication)
2024-12-19
Date (Creation)
2017-01-02
Status
Completed
Metadata language

eng
Metadata language

fra
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Biota
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators

www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators

Keywords

Theme

  • environmental indicators, nature, biodiversity, species, invasive alien species, invasive species, regulatory actions, federal regulations, risk analysis, established, regulated

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Nature and Biodiversity

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Environmental indicators

  • Invasive species

Business Functions

  • Protect Species Well-Being

  • Plans and Reports for Species

Geography

  • National (CA)
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)

Access Constraints
Copyright
Use Constraints
Copyright
Begin Date
2012-01-01
End Date
2023-12-31

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Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • CSV ( unknown)

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Public Inquiries Centre

 
 

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Keywords

environmental indicators, nature, biodiversity, species, invasive alien species, invasive species, regulatory actions, federal regulations, risk analysis, established, regulated
Business Functions

Plans and Reports for Species Protect Species Well-Being
ECCC Information Category EN

Nature and Biodiversity
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

Environmental indicators Invasive species


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