List of Extinct, Extirpated, Endangered, Threatened and Vulnerable Mammals
Definition of Terms
- EXTINCT - species no longer exist anywhere.
- EXTIRPATED - species no longer exist in the wild in Canada, but they occur elsewhere.
- ENDANGERED - species face imminent extinction or extirpation.
- THREATENED - species are likely to become endangered if limiting factors are not reversed.
- VULNERABLE - species are of special concern because of characteristics that make them
particularly sensitive to human activities or natural events.
Extinct:
- Sea Mink
- Woodland Caribou (Dawson's Caribou), Queen Charlotte Island population
Extirpated:
- Atlantic Walrus, North west Atlantic population
- Black-footed Ferret
- Gray Whale, Atlantic population
- Grizzly, Prairie population
- Swift Fox
Endangered:
- Beluga, St. Lawrence, Ungava Bay and South East Baffin Island populations (1997)
- Bowhead Whale, East and West Atlantic populations
- Cougar, East population
- Marten, Newfoundland population
- Panda
- Peary Caribou, Banks Island and High Arctic populations
- Right Whale
- Vancouver Island Marmot (1997)
- Wolverine, East population
Threataned:
- Beluga, East Hudson's Bay population
- Harbour Porpoise, North West Atlantic
- Humpback Whale, North Pacific population
- Pacific Water Shrew
- Peary Caribou, Low Arctic population
- Sea Otter
- Townsends Mole
- Wood Bison
- Woodland Caribou, Gaspé population
Vulnerable:
- Beluga, East High Arctic / Baffin Bay populations
- Black-footed Prairie Dog
- Blue Whale, Atlantic and Pacific populations
- Eastern Mole
- Ermine, Queen Charlote Island population
- Finwhale, Atlantic and Pacific populations
- Fringed Myotis (a bat)
- Gaspé Shrew
- Grey Fox
- Grizzly
- Harbour Seal
- Humpback Whale, Western North Atlantic population
- Keen's Long-Eared Bat
- Northern Bottlenose Whale, Gully population
- Nuttall's Cottontail
- Ord's Kangaroo Rat
- Pallid Bat
- Plains Pocket Gopher
- Polar Bear
- Southern Flying Squirrel
- Spotted Bat
- Western Harvest Mouse
- Wolverine, West population
- Woodland Caribou, West population
Undetermined:
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