Last updated November 6, 2024
New things are always happening in the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Here you will find information about calls for bids, upcoming meetings, and news from the latest wildlife species assessment meeting. Selected documents produced by, or for, COSEWIC also are posted here.
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Upcoming events
Upcoming calls for expression of interest:
- Species specialist subcommittee membership
- Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge Subcommittee : calls for expressions of interest in membership
- Amphibians and reptiles specialist subcommittee: calls for expressions of interest in membership
- Arthropods specialist subcommittee: calls for expressions of interest in membership
- Birds specialist subcommittee: calls for expressions of interest in membership
- Freshwater fishes specialist subcommittee: calls for expressions of interest in membership
- Marine fishes specialist subcommittee: calls for expressions of interest in membership
- Marine mammals specialist subcommittee: calls for expressions of interest in membership
- Molluscs specialist subcommittee: calls for expressions of interest in membership
- Mosses and lichens specialist subcommittee: calls for expressions of interest in membership
- Terrestrial mammals specialist subcommittee: calls for expressions of interest in membership
- Vascular plants specialist subcommittee: calls for expressions of interest in membership
- COSEWIC membership, winter 2025 (date to be determined)
Upcoming calls for bids:
- COSEWIC 2024 Call for Bids for Status Reports (November 6th, 2024 – December 18th, 2024 (until 3:00pm EST)
Upcoming meetings:
- November 25 to 28, 2024
COSEWIC Wildlife Species Assessment Meeting
Ottawa, Ontario
Recent press releases
Archived press releases
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk December 2023.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 2023.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk December 2022.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 2021.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk November 2020.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk November 2019.
- Press release: Original St. Lawrence River Striped Bass Extinct November 2019.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 2019.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk November 2018.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk September 2018.
- COSEWIC press release: May 2018.
- COSEWIC press release: emergency assessment February 2018.
- COSEWIC press release: November 2017.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 1, 2017.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk December 5, 2016.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 2, 2016.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk November 30, 2015.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 4, 2015.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk December 1, 2014.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 5, 2014.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk December 2, 2013.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 6, 2013.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk December 3, 2012.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 7, 2012.
- Press release: COSEWIC emergency assessment of the tri-colored bat, little brown myotis and northern myotis in canada February 3, 2012.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk November 28, 2011.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 9, 2011.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk November 29, 2010.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 3, 2010.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk November 30, 2009.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk May 1, 2009.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk November 28, 2008.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk April 25, 2008.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk December 3, 2007.
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk April 2007
- Press release: COSEWIC updates species at risk November 28, 2006.
COSEWIC's response to wildlife species referrals by the Governor in Council
The COSEWIC marine mammals specialist subcommittee’s response to the referral of the North Pacific population of Humpback Whale in 2006 and 2013 is available upon request by contacting the COSEWIC secretariat at
