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   B.C. Conservation Data Centre: Data Search

The CDC provides information on the conservation status and locations (Occurrences) of species and ecological communities at risk.

For inventory, reports, habitat and other information on animal species in B.C. not restricted to species at risk, please visit the Wildlife Species Inventory site or the Fisheries Inventory site.

BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer

Through this application you can generate lists of provincial species and ecological communities; conduct searches based on a number of criteria options, including conservation or legal status, and spatial distribution; print your results, or download them to Excel; and access related reports and documents.

Search capabilities and results include:

  • All Vertebrates, Dragonflies, Damselflies, Tiger Beetles, Butterflies, non-marine Molluscs, Vascular Plants and Mosses.
  • All ecological communities currently documented and ranked by the CDC. This list is regularly expanded as new classification and mapping information becomes available.
  • Conservation status value: global and provincial, Red and Blue List, and COSEWIC.
  • Legal designation under the Federal Species at Risk Act (SARA), Identified Wildlife and the Provincial Wildlife Act.
  • Forest District, BGC Zone values, Regional District and Ministry of Environment Regions for all ecological communities, and Red- and Blue-listed animals and vascular plant species.
  • Ecosection values for ecological communities.
Mapped Known Locations

There are four methods for accessing CDC mapped known locations (Occurrences) of Red- and Blue-Listed species and ecosystems at risk:

  1. CDC Internet Mapping Service - Use our Internet Mapping Service to view mapped Occurrences and print Occurrence records.
  2. Land and Resource Data Warehouse (LRDW) - Download Land and Resource Data including shapefiles of CDC mapped Occurrences through the Discover Download Service.
    - Instructions (PDF 16 KB)
  3. CDC Web Mapping Service (WMS) - Display CDC Occurrences real-time using your own GIS software
    - Instructions for Loading WMS (PDF 95 KB)
    - Legend for Viewing CDC WMS (PDF 19 KB)
  4. BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer - view generalised locations using Google Maps. Instructions: When the results of your search are displayed, click on the Globe icon under Locations.
Mapped Potential Locations of Ecological Communities

Potential occurrences of ecological communities may be found using existing ecosystem maps. View the TEM/PEM Index map (PDF 1 MB) of Terrestrial and Predictive Ecosystem Mapping projects and the SEI Index map (PDF 1.4 MB) for Sensitive Ecosystems Inventory mapping projects in B.C.

Download ecosystem mapping project files from the Ecological Reports Catalogue (EcoCat). Refer to the CDC Ecology Mapping page for instructions.

 

Custom Data Requests

 

If the above data access tools do not serve your needs, have us do a custom search of our database for mapped known Occurrences of Red- and Blue-listed species and ecological communities.

Historical data (Occurrences of species and ecological communities at risk greater than 40 years old) are no longer viewable on our website, but are available upon request.

We also have unpublished draft provincial lists of Marine Algae and Marine Invertebrates upon request.