Below is a list of online resources for land owners and managers, developers, industry and other land users.
For more information on how to reduce impacts on species at risk and their habitat, click here.
Best management practices
- Got Bats? NWT Guide for Managing Bats in Buildings
- Respect Underground Habitat - Poster
- Best Management Practices for Bats in British Columbia (practices apply to the NWT)
- Working in Western Toad Habitat - NWT Best Practices (Français)
- Northwest Territories Beekeeping Best Management Practices
- Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia) in sandpits and quarries
- Northern Land Use Guidelines (various)
- A guide to your responsibilities under the Species at Risk Act
- SARA and You: Information for Private Landowners
- DRAFT Guidelines for Exploration and Development Projects in Boreal Caribou Habitat in the Northwest Territories (2022)
- Calls to Action to Research Scientists- Summary of article “Towards Reconciliation: 10 Calls to Action to natural scientists working in Canada”
Developing a Wildlife Management and Monitoring Plan
- Wildlife Management and Monitoring Plans - GNWT website
- WMMP Process and Content Guidelines
- VIDEO: Wildlife Management and Monitoring Plans: What do developers need to know?
- Designated habitat under the Species at Risk (NWT) Act (there is currently no designated habitat in the NWT)
- Critical habitat under the Species at Risk Act (see recovery strategy for individual species on the federal Species at Risk Public Registry)
Permitting and environmental assessment
- Regulations and Permits under the Species at Risk (NWT) Act
- MVLWB Guide to the Water Licensing Process (2021)
- MVLWB Guide to the Land Use Permitting Process (2021)
- EISC Environmental Impact Screening Guidelines (2021)
- DRAFT EIRB Environmental Impact Review Guidelines (2022)
- Addressing Species at Risk Act Considerations Under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act for Species Under the Responsibility of the Minister responsible for Environment Canada and Parks Canada (2010)
- Environmental Assessment Best Practice Guide for Wildlife at Risk in Canada (2004)
Caribou range planning
- Bathurst Caribou Range Plan (NWT)
- A Framework for Boreal Caribou Range Planning
- Interim Wek’èezhìı Boreal Caribou Range Plan
- Boreal caribou (GNWT webpage)
- Barren-ground caribou (GNWT webpage)
- Bathurst caribou range plan (GNWT webpage)
- NWT Species and Habitat Viewer (includes spatial information about range plans)
Species information
- Our Species at Risk
- Guide to Species at Risk in the NWT
- NWT List of Species at Risk
- Management Plans and Recovery Strategies
- NWT Species and Habitat Viewer
- NWT Species Infobase
- General Status Ranks of Wild Species in the NWT
- NWT Virtual Herbarium (contact SARA@gov.nt.ca)
Reference
- Species at risk legislation (NWT and Canada)
- Species at Risk Act public registry (Canada)
- Schedule 1 (List of Wildlife Species at Risk) (Canada)
- Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (Canada)
- Species at Risk Committee (NWT)
- Conference of Management Authorities (NWT)