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…

Publisher

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Resources

6

Catalogue metadata updated

2025-03-15