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As of November 2024, the List of Wildlife Species at Risk has more than 600 entries for Canadian wildlife species considered at varying risks of extinction, including 301 classified as endangered species, 147 threatened species, 200 special concern, and 23 extirpated (no longer existing in the wild in Canada, but exists elsewhere). [1]
The eastern gray squirrel is an introduced species in a variety of locations in western North America: in western Canada, to the southwest corner of British Columbia and to the city of Calgary, Alberta; [19] in the United States, to the states of Washington and Oregon and, in California, to the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco ...
Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus saturatus) LC; Golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis) LC; Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) LC; Fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) LC; Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) LC; American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) LC; Northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys ...
Eastern gray squirrels, including their black morphs, were introduced into British Columbia during the early 1900s. [3] The species was also later introduced into other areas of Canada to which it was not native, such as Calgary, Alberta. The majority of the eastern gray squirrels in Calgary originated as pets, or zoo animals that escaped ...
This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...
The species is the largest tree squirrel in the state. It’s being threatened by climate change, habitat loss and frequent disease outbreaks. Gray squirrel may become endangered species in WA.
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Canada.There are approximately 200 mammal species in Canada. [1] Its large territorial size consist of fifteen terrestrial and five marine ecozones, ranging from oceanic coasts, to mountains to plains to urban housing, mean that Canada can harbour a great variety of species, including nearly half of the known cetaceans. [2]
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