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Joan Eamer, Ecosystem Status and Trends Report Secretariat (Environment Canada) CARMA 6

CARMA & the Ecosystem Status and Trends Report for Canada (ESTR). Joan Eamer, Ecosystem Status and Trends Report Secretariat (Environment Canada) CARMA 6 Dec 4 2009. Taiga Cordillera Photo: D. Downing. Context. Measuring Progress Towards the United Nations Biodiversity Target

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Joan Eamer, Ecosystem Status and Trends Report Secretariat (Environment Canada) CARMA 6

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  1. CARMA & the Ecosystem Status and Trends Report for Canada (ESTR) Joan Eamer, Ecosystem Status and Trends Report Secretariat (Environment Canada) CARMA 6 Dec 4 2009 Taiga Cordillera Photo: D. Downing

  2. Context Measuring Progress Towards the United Nations Biodiversity Target “to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on Earth” Photo: Environment Canada. D. Mulders Ecosystem Status and Trends Report

  3. Canada’sBiodiversity Outcomes Framework Ecosystem Status and Trends Report

  4. Purpose of ESTR • Measure progress towards the UN 2010 biodiversity target; • Inform national biodiversity agenda, and particularly expansion of conservation thinking to include ecosystem approaches; • Identify strengths & weaknesses of current ecosystem monitoring • Provide a legacy of accessible, integrated, ecosystem information from federal, provincial, territorial, academic sources Photo. A. Gaston Ecosystem Status and Trends Report

  5. A Federal/Provincial/Territorial Initiative • 2006 decision to proceed, Canadian Councils of Resource Ministers (CCRM) • 2007 funded and started • Federal/Provincial/Territorial Steering Committee • Secretariat (Environment Canada) • Many authors, contributors, reviewers • 2008-09 research and writing • September 2010 – everything will be done • Now • Synthesizing results and extracting key findings • Still completing/reviewing many of the technical ‘building block’ reports Photo:Victory Adventure Travel Ecosystem Status and Trends Report

  6. Ecological units follow the National Ecological Classification System (NECS) with some changes 3 Arctic ecozones combined Updated boundaries from ground-truthing 26 EcozonesPlus 15 terrestrial units 9 marine units Great Lakes Urban Ecological Classification for ESTR Ecosystem Status and Trends Report

  7. Building Blocks 26 ecozonePlus technical reports ~30 thematic reports & synthesized data sets Canada’s international reporting (Arctic Council, CBD) Products Key Findings Evidence for Key Findings 26 ecozone-level reports Summary for Decision-makers Highlights report 5 CARMA Photo: Jean Goddard Northern caribou report Ecosystem Status and Trends Report

  8. Key finding themes Examples of where CARMA is relevant Ecosystem processes • Changes in green-up dates & biomass • Parasites and wildlife disease changes Habitat and wildlife • Herd population trends • Landscape fragmentation • Disruption of migration corridors Biome trends • Changes in the tundra biome Photo: EnvironmentCanada Human/ ecosystem interactions • Stewardship and conservation measures • Climate change impacts on caribou • Ecosystem services: cultural, economic, importance of caribou Ecosystem Status and Trends Report

  9. CARMA and Ecosystem Status and Trends Reporting • Focus is on data – current status and recent trends – not projected impacts • There is a shortage of trend data for ecosystem reporting • What data exist are often hard to find and not synthesized • Good, effective ecosystem assessment needs good population numbers but it also needs data on stressors, drivers, ecosystem linkages • Both inventory and synthesis are needed to tell the story Photo: Environment Canada, A. Mills Ecosystem Status and Trends Report

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