Habitat Stewardship Program
Species at Risk Stream1 Regional Priorities 2017-2018
This is a simplified list of the 2017-18 Habitat Stewardship Program (HSP) Species at Risk (SAR)
Stream Regional Funding Priorities. For a more detailed list, as well as maps, and other details
such as information on species-specific recovery actions, please contact your HSP Regional
Coordinator.
The Regional Priorities along with the National Priorities help to guide funding decisions.
Projects addressing Regional and/or National Priorities will be prioritized to receive funding;
however, funding is not guaranteed. Regional Priorities are independent of each other; for
example, a priority species does not need to be found in a priority area.
For information on National Priorities for these programs and to better understand how projects
are reviewed, please see the HSP Call for Proposals.
HSP
Region
Atlantic
Species
Québec
1
Terrestrial Priorities
Areas
 Cyanolichens
(SARA-listed
Atlantic
Populations)
 Piping Plover
 SARA-listed
Turtle species
 Woodland
Caribou
(Boreal
population)
 SARA-listed
Bat species
 Coastal
Beaches,
Dunes and
Marshes
 Forested
habitat
 Limestone
Barrens
 Riverine and
Riparian – St.
John River
 Southwest
Nova Scotia
 American
Ginseng
 Chimney Swift
 Species of
endangered
bats in Quebec
 Western
Chorus Frog
Great Lakes /
St. Lawrence Canadian
Shield
population
 Various
species of
turtles
including
Wood Turtle
 Magdalen
Islands
 Monteregian
Hills
 Ottawa Valley
 St. Lawrence
Lowlands
Threats
 Conversion,
destruction or
degradation
and drainage
of large
parches of
grassland,
wetlands;
Species
 Atlantic
Salmon (Inner
Bay of Fundy
population)
 Atlantic
Whitefish
 Leatherback
Turtle
 North Atlantic
Right Whale
 Wolffish
(Northern
and/or
Spotted)
 Beluga Whale
(St. Lawrence
population)
 Blue Whale
 Channel Darter
 Copper
Redhorse
 St. Lawrence
Estuary Striped
Bass
Aquatic Priorities
Areas
Threats
 Barriers to
migration
 Fishery
Interactions:
Bycatch
 Fishery
Interactions:
Entanglement
 Habitat
Alteration
 Invasive and
introduced
species
 St. Lawrence
Estuary and
the Gulf of St.
Lawrence
(marine
environment)
 St. Lawrence
River
watershed
(freshwater
section only)
For a list of Regional priorities in the Prevention stream, please contact your HSP Regional Coordinator.
 Agricultural
practices on
the St.
Lawrence Plain
 Commercial
and sport
fishing bycatch and
entanglement
in fishing gear
 Shoreline
hardening in
the St.
Lawrence River
Basin
(freshwater
sector)
Ontario
Prairie
 Acadian
Flycatcher
 Monarch
Butterfly
 Massasauga
Rattlesnake
 Western
Chorus Frog
(Great Lakes St
Lawrence
Shield)
 Henslow's
Sparrow
 Loggerhead
Shrike
 Woodland
Caribou
(Boreal pop.)
Pacific
 Woodland
Caribou
(Boreal and
Southern
Mountain)
 Northern or
Little Brown
Myotis
 Vancouver
Island Marmot
North
 Woodland
Caribou
(Boreal)
 Peary Caribou
 Northern or
Little Brown
Myotis
 Bruce
Peninsula
 Huron Fringe
 St. Clair Plains
 Iroquois Plain
 Norfolk Sand
Plain
 Eastern Mixedgrass Prairie
 Milk River
Watershed
(AB)
 Milk River
Watershed (SK)
 South
Saskatchewan
River Sub-basin
 Tall Grass
Prairie
 Coastal Douglas
Fir
biogeoclimatic
zone
 Lower Fraser
Valley from
Chilliwack to the
Fraser River
delta
 Ponderosa Pine
biogeoclimatic
zone
 Bunchgrass
biogeoclimatic
zone
 Creston Valley
 Destruction or
degradation of
large patches
(>69 ha) of
remaining
native prairie
 Destruction or
degradation of
sand-dune
complexes
 Destruction or
degradation of
residences for
colonial
species
 Introduction
and spread of
invasive
species
 Degradation of
Critical and
important
Habitat caused
by recreational
activities
 Channel Darter
 Pugnose
Shiner
 Rainbow
Mussel
 Eastern
Pondmussel
 Lake
Chubsucker
 Ausable River
Watershed
 Sydenham
River
Watershed
 Erie-Essex
Region
Watersheds
 Thames River
Watershed
 Grand River
Watershed
 Westslope
Cutthroat
Trout
 Carmine
Shiner
 Mapleleaf
Mussel
 Western
Silvery
Minnow
 Bigmouth
Buffalo
 Milk River/St.
Mary River
Watershed
 North or South
Saskatchewan
River basin
 Southwest
(eastern slope)
Alberta

 Northern
Abalone
 Killer Whales
 Salish Sucker
 White
Sturgeon
 Large Whales
(Blue, Fin and
Sei Whales)
 Lower Fraser
Valley /Fraser
River
watershed
 Columbia River
Watershed
 Invasive
species
 Vessel traffic
in Strait of
Georgia
 Entanglement
of marine
pelagic species
 Bowhead
Whale (BeringChukchiBeaufort)
 Areas of
importance for
marine
mammals (i.e.
areas used for
haul-out,
feeding,
spawning,
nursery,
overwintering,
migratory
corridor)
 Habitat loss or
degradation
 Hit and loss of
marine
mammals

Overexploita
tion or
hybridization
of Westslope
Cutthroat
Trout
Habitat loss
or
degradation