Annex D

D.1

Land Cover by Ecozone

1. A modified Atlas of Canada Vector Map Level 0 (VMAP0) shoreline was used in the creation of this map. The 2000 United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) 1-km data raster product was converted to a vector dataset for processing purposes.

2. The disturbance area category refers to forest disturbance, which can be caused by changes in forest structure or composition resulting from natural events such as fire, flood or wind, from mortality caused by insect or disease outbreaks, or from human-caused events such as forest harvesting.

3. ’Other’ consists of water, urban and built-up and statistical error.

Source(s): Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Environment Canada, 2003, Framework Data - National Resolution - Ecological Units,www.geoconnexions.org/CGDI.cfm/fuseaction/dataFrameworkData.ecoUnits/gcs.cfm(accessed March 2, 2005); Natural Resources Canada, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, 2006, Multi-Temporal Land Cover Maps of Canada using NOAA AVHRR 1-km data from 1985 to 2000, geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/download/EO_Data/Land_Cover_Of_Canada_1985-2000 (accessed August 16, 2006), The Atlas of Canada, 2002, The Atlas of Canada Vector Map Level 0 (VMAP0), geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/vmap/intro_e.html (accessed March 2, 2005); Statistics Canada, Environment Accounts and Statistics Division, Spatial Environmental Information System.
Source: Statistics Canada. 2006. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 16-201-XIE2006000, p.40

D.2

Summary of 2005 Canada General Status Ranks (Canada ranks) by taxonomic group

Note: Species ranked Extirpated, Extinct, Undetermined, Not Assessed, Exotic and Accidental are excluded from % calculations above.
Source: Canadian Endangered Species Conservation Council (CESCC). 2006. Wild Species 2005: The General Status of Species in Canada.

D.3

Invasive species of high threat in Canada

Note: High threat status as indicated in the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Invasive Species in Canada.
Source: Canadian Wildlife Federation, 2003, Invasive Species in Canada, www.cwf-fcf.org/invasive/chooseSC.asp (accessed April 26, 2006).
Source: Statistics Canada. 2006. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 16-201-XIE2006000, p.127-128

D.4

Protected Areas in Canada, by Province and Territory

1. Defined by World Wildlife Fund Canada as those areas that are permanently protected through legislation and that prohibit industrial uses such as logging, mining, hydro-electric development, oil and gas and other large scale developments.
Sources: World Wildlife Fund Canada, 2000, Endangered Spaces; The Wilderness Campaign that Changed the Canadian Landscape 1989-2000, Toronto and World Wildlife Fund Canada, 2003, The Nature Audit: Setting Canada’s Conservation Agenda for the 21st Century, Toronto.
Source: Statistics Canada. 2006. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 16-201-XIE2006000, p.134

D.5

Land protected by OECD Countries

Notes:
a) IUCN management categories I-VI and protected areas without IUCN category assignment. National classifications may differ.
b) Strict nature reserves/ Wilderness areas: protected areas managed mainly for science/ wilderness protection.
c) National parks: protected areas managed mainly for ecosystem protection and recreation.
d) Natural monuments: protected areas managed mainly for conservation of specific natural features.
e) Habitat/species management areas: protected areas managed mainly for habitat and species conservation through management intervention.
f) Protected landscapes/ seascapes: protected areas managed mainly for landscape/seascape conservation and recreation.
g) Managed resource protected areas: protected areas managed mainly for the sustainable use of natural ecosystems.
USA) Includes Alaska. Excludes American Samoa, Guam, Minor Outlying Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands.
AUS) Excludes the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park totalling 345 400 km² (cat. VI).
DNK) Excludes Greenland: mainly one national park of 972 000 km² and one nature reserve of 10 500 km².
FRA) Excludes non-metropolitan France; includes Corsica.
NLD) Excludes the Netherlands Antilles.
NOR) Excludes Svalbard, Jan Mayen and Bouvet islands.
PRT) Includes Azores and Madeira.
ESP) Includes Baleares and Canaries.
UKD) Excludes Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, St. Helena and Dependencies, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands.
Source: UNESCO-MAB, Ramsar Convention Bureau; OECD environmental data 2004, p. 142 (July 2003).

D.6

Biosphere Reserves and Wetlands of International Importance, 2004

Notes:
a) As of 26 July 2003.
b) As of 11 February 2004. CZE) Biosphere reserves: of which one common site with Poland. DNK) Excludes Greenland (1 biosphere reserve and 11 wetlands of 13 423 km².
FRA) Biosphere reserves: of which one common site with Germany; excludes non-metropolitan France (2 biosphere reserves and 3 wetlands of 2 160 km²).
DEU) Biosphere reserves: of which one common site with France.
NLD) Wetlands: excludes the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba (6 sites of 20 km²).
NOR) Wetlands: includes Spitzbergen island.
POL) Biosphere reserves: of which one common site with Czech Republic, one with Slovak Republic and one with Slovak Republic and Ukraine. SVK) Biosphere reserves: of which one common site with Poland and one with Poland and Ukraine.
UKD) Wetlands: excludes Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and Turks and Caicos Islands (13 sites of 1002 km²).
Sources: UNESCO-MAB, Ramsar Convention Bureau; OECD Environmental Data 2004, p. 140.

D.7

Total Protected Area per Ecozone

D.8

Operating nuclear reactors in Canada, 2004

Notes:
1. Three reactors at Pickering A, with a total capacity of 1 626 MW, will be returning to service. Dates are to be determined.
2. Two reactors at Bruce A, with a total capacity of 1 650 MW, will be returning to service. Dates are to be determined.
Source: Canadian Nuclear Association, n.d., www.cna.ca/english/nuclear.asp (accessed May 31, 2004).
Source: Statistics Canada. 2004. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 0000416-201-XIE, p. 6