Terrestrial Biological and Physical Monitoring

Introduction

Description: Terrestrial Biological and Physical Monitoring projects involve repeated inventories of wildlife species, ecosystems, or environmental attributes.

Delivery & Access: All data and reports from Terrestrial Biological and Physical Monitoring using any methods, including both innovative and standard, must be submitted to the Wildlife Species Inventory program. To submit data and reports use the submissions page as described in this table. To access previously submitted data and reports use the Species Inventory Web Explorer for wildlife population data or EcoCat for ecosystems and environmental data.

Process: Recipients of FIA funding are required under their agreement with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to adhere to RISC standards, LBIP Standards, or an approved variance from the standards. A request for variance must be submitted to PwC who may then forward that request to the data custodian for review. Any innovative approaches must be follow the Criteria for Conducting Innovative Projects described here (PDF 35KB).

Standards & Documents: The links below provides on-line access to the standards and other related documents including strategies, best practices, guidelines, and reports.

Mandatory Standards

	•	Monitoring (repeated inventories) of Wildlife Species
	•	Biodiversity Monitoring Standards (PDF 49.6KB)
	•	Species and Ecosystems at Risk LBIP Standard (applicable to various activities) (PDF 80.1KB)

Project Specific Standards

Other Related Information

Please note: Due to government reorganization, Ministry or other agency names, contacts, and website URL's, located within documents listed above, under “… Standards" or “Other Related Information”, may have changed since document publication. If current contacts, URL's, or other information is required, please contact whr_mail@Victoria1.gov.bc.ca.