| SKCDC Species List Updates May 1st, 2025: The SKCDC Provincial Species Lists have been updated and posted to the species lists page. Download the summary of updates for a detailed list of changes since they were last posted. |
| November 2024 COSEWIC Meetings May 1st, 2025: The SKCDC Species Lists have been updated to include the November 2024 Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) assessments. Three species that occur in Saskatchewan were assessed in November 2024. Black-tailed Prairie Dog remains threatened, and Least Bittern changed from threatened to special concern. Short-billed Dowitcher was newly assessed as threatened. See the COSEWIC website for the full list of species assessed. | |
| SARA Updates June 21st, 2024: On June 19th, an Order to amend Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act (SARA) resulted in the following changes for two species occurring in Saskatchewan:
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| May 2024 COSEWIC Meetings May 16th, 2024: The Long-billed Curlew was reassessed from Special Concern to Threatened in the most recent Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) meetings. See the COSEWIC website for a summary of all wild species assessments. The SKCDC vertebrate species lists have been updated to reflect this change. | |
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