The Minister responsible for the Wildlife Act may establish one or more categories identifying species of wildlife as species at risk, regionally important wildlife or ungulate species. The authority to take this action is enabled by section 29 of the Environmental Protection and Management Regulation (EPMR; BC Reg. 200/2010). The establishment of categories of species enables other provisions under the EPMR to be used to manage the habitat for these wildlife species including wildlife habitat areas and ungulate winter ranges, which are authorities held by the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.
Species at Risk
On July 18, 2011 the Minister of Environment established a category of species at risk by order made under section 29(a) of the EPMR of the Oil and Gas Activities Act. This category of species at risk represents those species that had previously been listed as species at risk under the Forest and Range Practices Act. Currently there are 85 species and plant communities (including subspecies and subpopulations) established in the category of species at risk under the EPMR.
ORDER - CATEGORY OF SPECIES AT RISK (SAR) – July 18, 2011 (PDF 98KB)
On July 18, 2011 the Minister of Environment established a category of ungulate species by order made under section 29(c) of the EPMR of the Oil and Gas Activities Act. This category of ungulate species represents those species that had previously been listed as ungulate species under the Forest and Range Practices Act.
ORDER – CATEGORY OF UNGULATE SPECIES – July 18, 2011 (PDF 23 KB)
Regionally Important Wildlife
Work is ongoing to identify the category of regionally important wildlife.