Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada

Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) is a group of academics, consultants and non-governmental organization biologists, and biologists from federal, provincial, and territorial governments that constitutes an arms-length advisory panel to the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada concerning the status of wildlife species at risk of extinction in Canada and the threats that they face. COSEWIC meets and assesses the risk status of wildlife species twice per year, in November and April, and reports the results of these assessments to the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Canadian public in of the fall of each year.