Thank you for your participation in the Species at Risk Act – Cooperation, Consultation, and Accommodation (SARA-CCA) Project, a partnership between the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER) and Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Canadian Wildlife Service (ECCC-CWS).  The objective of this multi-year project was to facilitate Indigenous communities’ and organizations’ participation in ECCC-CWS’ listing and recovery planning processes for terrestrial species as part of implementing the federal Species at Risk Act. The project began in 2021 and is expected to be completed March 31, 2026.

CIER’s role was to support a range of activities between Indigenous communities and organizations and ECCC on developing recovery documents, sharing knowledge and language, addressing threats to terrestrial species at risk survival and recovery, and land use planning for species at risk on reserve lands and within traditional territories.