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Safeguarding a Future for Wildlife

Canada is home to about 80,000 species, many of which face numerous threats to their survival. Our most recent Living Planet Report Canada found that populations of at-risk species have declined 59% on average since 1970. We are committed to a different approach to conservation: One that effectively addresses multiple threats to biodiversity by applying the best science available and respecting Indigenous knowledge.

Threats to Wildlife

Species are threatened by multiple, compounding pressures. At a broad level, the main threats are:

Understanding Species Status Listing

In Canada, over 600 plant and animal species at risk are currently protected under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) and more than 150 additional species are under consideration to be added to the list.

What WWF-Canada is Doing

WWF works to conserve species at risk, protect and restore threatened habitats and address climate change. Drawing on scientific and Indigenous knowledge, we work to preserve the diversity and abundance of life in Canada and around the world. We find long-term solutions that benefit both nature and people. Through initiatives like our Arctic Species Conservation Fund, we support research on the polar bear, barren-ground caribou, walrus, narwhal, bowhead whale and beluga whale. The more we know about these species, the better we can protect them.

WWF-Canada's Nature and Climate Grant Program helps communities and Indigenous organizations restore degraded lands and shorelines - , because when ecosystems are in good health, wildlife has a better chance of thriving. We also encourage groups and individuals to restore habitat, monitor species at risk, protect biodiversity and generate solutions to the conservation challenges facing their communities through our Go Wild Community Grants.

Priority Threat Management

As the number of species at risk of extinction in Canada continues to grow, we are taking a new approach to species recovery. By implementing a new, rapid decision-making tool in the Wolostoq/Saint John River watershed in New Brunswick, we have identified the conservation actions that will have the greatest impact on the largest number of species, taking costs, benefits and feasibilities into consideration. And we have already begun to put them into action.

Learn More

Living Planet Report Canada

The fate of wildlife in Canada is in our hands. WWF-Canada's Living Planet Report shows that wildlife is on a troubling decline. It's time to come together and turn things around.

Read the Report

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WWF-Canada works to save a growing number of threatened and endangered species. Learn more about species at risk and what WWF is doing to help them.

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Animals for Kids: Learn about your favorite animal

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Kids learn about animals including birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and fish. Endangered animals for teachers.

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Switch Zoo features six free online games and an app to make new animals offline.

Switch Zoo music is 'performed' by animals! After listening, learn how the music was created.

The resources page provides an overview of the activities and information at Switch Zoo.

Switch the animals' heads, legs, and tails to make your own switcheroos! Play Switch Zoo Online for free. Check out the Switch Zoo App for morphing animations, bigger pictures, and more features.

Switch Zoo Online Switch Zoo App

Build six of world's biomes by choosing the right plants, animal, temperature range, and precipitation for each. Get a postcard for each biome you build, and build them all to become a Biome Master.
Play Build a Biome

A feather match game. See if you can identify each feather's bird from three choices with the help of a clue. Read interesting and sometimes surprising facts while you play.
Play Words of a Feather

Move animals to their home continent or ocean in these geographic animal games. Seven games feature mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and mollusks.
Play Where Do I Live?

It's always feeding time at Switch Zoo! We need your help sorting the animals by diet type to make sure they get the right food.
Play Please DO Feed the Animals

Can you spot a scavenger in a crowd? Find out by choosing scavengers and non-scavengers from groups of animals.
Play Scavengers Hunt

Learn about the characteristics and behavior of the 142 animal species in Switch Zoo.

Reviews of Switch Zoo Online from magazines and web sites, as well as players' comments about the Switch Zoo App.

Switch Zoo visitors share funny and creative animal names, drawings, stories and poems about the animals, and comments about the zoo. Don't miss the fantastic drawings of combination animals created by 5th grade students.

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Switch Zoo features six free online games and an app to make new animals offline. Switch Zoo music is 'performed' by animals! After listening, learn how the music was created. The resources page provides an overview of the activities and information at Switch Zoo. Switch the animals' heads, legs, and tails to make your own switcheroos!