News and Highlights
  • In 2005 staff with the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (AC CDC) joined knowledgeable partners in an attempt to predict where species of conservation concern, including Species at Risk (SAR), could be found in the Canadian Maritimes. View article on X-Maps
  • During the 2006 field season CDC staff specialists found the following five new species in New Brunswick [Snail-Seed Pondweed (Potamogeton bicupulatus), Large-Leaved Sphagnum Moss (Sphagnum macrophyllum), Greenland Sandwort (Minuartia groenlandica), Atlantic Sedge (Carex atlantica ssp. atlantica), and Martha’s Pennant (Celithimus martha, a dragonfly). In addition they found first Nova Scotia records of the exotic plants Town Avens (Geum urbanum) and Narrow-Leaved Agalinis (Agalinis tenuifolia), and substantial range extensions for two very rare plants in Nova Scotia - Maine Sedge (Carex x stenolepis, 540km southwest of the only other provincial population), and Eastern Lilaeopsis (Lilaeopsis chinensis, 170km north of nearest population).
  • The Atlantic CDC is presently helping federal property custodians determine which of their properties are likely to support federally or provincially listed species at risk.
  • In 2005 and 2006, the Atlantic CDC gathered previously unentered data from all federal parks in the Atlantic Region.
  • In 2005, the Atlantic CDC installed the first multi-jurisdictional version of Biotics4, NatureServe's internationally recognized standard software package for maintaining information about species and ecological communities.
  • Atlantic CDC is completing the description of forest communities for the Maritimes and has started working on community descriptions for non-forested (including wetland) communities.
  • In December 2004, the Atlantic CDC provided a report to the Canadian Wildlife Service outlining the capacity and ability of CDCs across Canada to help address federal Species and Risk needs.
  • During the summer of 2004, the Atlantic CDC, the Canadian Wildlife Service, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, the Department of Fisheries and Ocean and several First Nations in the Maritimes joined forces to initiate species at risk inventories for plants on First Nations land and train First Nations staff for future related work.

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