Federal news conference on the tabling of the wild species report – November 29, 2022

Credit: cpac

Terry Duguid (parliamentary secretary to the minister of environment and climate change) holds a news conference following the tabling of the report Wild Species 2020: The General Status of Species in Canada. Of the 50,534 species listed in the report, 80 percent are considered secure, while 20 percent are at some level of risk of extinction. He is joined by Sophie Chatel (Liberal MP for Pontiac), Gauri Sreenivasan (director, policy and campaigns, Nature Canada), Emily Giles (senior specialist, species conservation, WWF-Canada) and Sandra Schwartz (national executive director, The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society).