CONSOLIDATION

List of Wildlife Species at Risk (referral back to COSEWIC) Order

SI/2022-7

Current to June 20, 2022



OFFICIAL STATUS OF CONSOLIDATIONS Subsections 31(1) and (3) of the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act, in force on June 1, 2009, provide as follows: Published consolidation is evidence

31 (1) Every copy of a consolidated statute or consolidated regulation published by the Minister under this Act in either print or electronic form is evidence of that statute or regulation and of its contents and every copy purporting to be published by the Minister is deemed to be so published, unless the contrary is shown. ... Inconsistencies in regulations

(3) In the event of an inconsistency between a consolidated regulation published by the Minister under this Act and the original regulation or a subsequent amendment as registered by the Clerk of the Privy Council under the Statutory Instruments Act, the original regulation or amendment prevails to the extent of the inconsistency.

LAYOUT The notes that appeared in the left or right margins are now in boldface text directly above the provisions to which they relate. They form no part of the enactment, but are inserted for convenience of reference only.

NOTE This consolidation is current to June 20, 2022. Any amendments that were not in force as of June 20, 2022 are set out at the end of this document under the heading “Amendments Not in Force”.

Current to June 20, 2022

TABLE OF PROVISIONS List of Wildlife Species at Risk (referral back to COSEWIC) Order

ANNEX

Statement Setting Out the Reasons for Referring the Assessments of the Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) — Northern Mountain Population, Central Mountain Population and Southern Mountain Population — Back to COSEWIC

Current to June 20, 2022

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Registration SI/2022-7 February 16, 2022

SPECIES AT RISK ACT List of Wildlife Species at Risk (referral back to COSEWIC) Order P.C. 2022-75

February 3, 2022

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, pursuant to subsections 27(1.1) and (1.2) of the Species at Risk Acta, (a) refers the following assessments back to the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) for further information or consideration: (i) the assessment of the status of the Caribou

(Rangifer tarandus) Northern Mountain population, (ii) the assessment of the status of the Caribou

(Rangifer tarandus) Central Mountain population, and (iii) the assessment of the status of the Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Southern Mountain population; and (b) approves that the Minister of the Environment include in the public registry established under section 120 of that Act the statement that is attached as the annex to this Order and that sets out the reasons for the referral back to COSEWIC.

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S.C. 2002, c. 29

Current to June 20, 2022

List of Wildlife Species at Risk (referral back to COSEWIC) Order ANNEX Statement Setting Out the Reasons for Referring the Assessments of the Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) — Northern Mountain Population, Central Mountain Population and Southern Mountain Population — Back to COSEWIC

ANNEX

Statement Setting Out the Reasons for Referring the Assessments of the Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) — Northern Mountain Population, Central Mountain Population and Southern Mountain Population — Back to COSEWIC Two mountain caribou populations in western Canada are currently listed in Schedule 1 to the Species at Risk Act— the Woodland Caribou (Southern Mountain population), listed as a threatened species in 2003, and the Woodland Caribou (Northern Mountain population), listed as a species of special concern in 2005. In 2011, COSEWIC defined twelve new designatable units (DUs) to support assessments of caribou across Canada. In particular, it split the two currently listed mountain caribou populations in western Canada into three new DUs and modified their boundaries. In 2014, COSEWIC provided its assessment of the status of the newly structured DUs for mountain caribou in western Canada in its “COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Caribou Rangifer tarandus, Northern Mountain population, Central Mountain population and Southern Mountain population in Canada – 2014” (the 2014 report). Based on the uncertainties relating to the delineation of the three DUs for mountain caribou in western Canada, insufficient genetic information, the lack of inclusion of Indigenous knowledge with respect to the creation of the DUs, as well as recent changes in population size of some affected herds, the assessments in the 2014 report are referred back to COSEWIC for further information or consideration. The Department of the Environment is committed to working with COSEWIC on this matter.

Current to June 20, 2022

