Table 3.13
Protected and conserved area, by ecoprovince, 2020


Table 3.13
Protected and conserved area, by ecoprovince, 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Protected and conserved area Total area, Protected and conserved area, Share of ecoprovince protected and conserved and Share of protected and conserved area, calculated using km and percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Total area Protected and conserved area Share of ecoprovince protected and conserved Share of protected and conserved area
km2 percentage
Canada total 9,978,923 1,249,497 12.5 100.0
Ecoprovince
Northern Arctic Cordillera 113,667 14,119 12.4 1.1
Southern Arctic Cordillera 129,758 41,849 32.3 3.3
Sverdrup Islands 65,520 0 0.0 0.0
Ellesmere Basin 129,117 21,690 16.8 1.7
Victoria Lowlands 429,668 43,780 10.2 3.5
Parry Channel Plateau 134,422 11,893 8.8 1.0
Boothia–Foxe Shield 546,492 30,032 5.5 2.4
Baffin Uplands 131,350 1,898 1.4 0.2
Foxe–Boothia Lowlands 80,387 6,587 8.2 0.5
Amundsen Lowlands 308,466 24,263 7.9 1.9
Keewatin Lowlands 383,489 107,852 28.1 8.6
Ungava–Belcher 158,527 25,029 15.8 2.0
Mackenzie Foothills 86,572 28,729 33.2 2.3
Great Bear Lowlands 340,206 43,864 12.9 3.5
Hay–Slave Lowlands 235,507 26,757 11.4 2.1
Western Taiga Shield 635,379 73,462 11.6 5.9
Eastern Taiga 394,475 55,101 14.0 4.4
Labrador Uplands 250,152 13,051 5.2 1.0
Whale River Lowland 114,641 20,522 17.9 1.6
Western Boreal Shield 524,821 23,959 4.6 1.9
Mid-Boreal Shield 500,600 83,776 16.7 6.7
Eastern Boreal Shield 354,666 33,848 9.5 2.7
Newfoundland 111,239 7,443 6.7 0.6
Lake of the Woods 71,646 9,691 13.5 0.8
Southern Boreal Shield 319,993 29,237 9.1 2.3
Appalachian–Acadian Highlands 94,951 4,088 4.3 0.3
Northumberland Lowlands 35,629 1,339 3.8 0.1
Fundy Uplands 71,086 7,992 11.2 0.6
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands 88,174 1,905 2.2 0.2
Huron–Erie Plains 24,724 190 0.8 0.0
Boreal Foothills 124,690 2,838 2.3 0.2
Central Boreal Plains 483,992 68,846 14.2 5.5
Eastern Boreal Plains 130,770 8,232 6.3 0.7
Eastern Prairies 32,872 369 1.1 0.0
Parkland Prairies 177,448 7,416 4.2 0.6
Central Grassland 254,376 20,380 8.0 1.6
Northern Yukon Mountains 26,893 9,184 34.2 0.7
Old Crow–Eagle Plains 20,760 9,210 44.4 0.7
Ogilvie Mountains 60,089 5,901 9.8 0.5
Mackenzie–Selwyn Mountains 159,487 22,066 13.8 1.8
Wrangel Mountains 24,471 21,967 89.8 1.8
Northern Boreal Cordillera 239,038 10,728 4.5 0.9
Southern Boreal Cordillera 168,162 53,700 31.9 4.3
Western Boreal Cordillera 38,797 0 0.0 0.0
Georgia Depression 19,470 2,501 12.8 0.2
Southern Coastal Mountains 158,751 41,609 26.2 3.3
Northern Coastal Mountains 31,881 7,604 23.8 0.6
Northern Montane Cordillera 141,283 13,570 9.6 1.1
Central Montane Cordillera 106,009 24,163 22.8 1.9
Southern Montane Cordillera 59,034 7,451 12.6 0.6
Columbia Montane Cordillera 180,331 60,653 33.6 4.9
Hudson Bay Coastal Plains 64,090 27,729 43.3 2.2
Hudson–James Lowlands 311,730 17,916 5.7 1.4
Great Lakes 88,379 11,516 13.0 0.9
Notes: This table includes only the terrestrial portion of protected and conserved areas with both terrestrial and marine regions. Any overlap between areas has been removed to avoid double counting. The total area for Canada includes the Canadian portion of the Great Lakes and residual areas along shorelines not included in the ecoprovince areas. These data may differ from other published tabulations. Only public data were used in this compilation.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2020, Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database, December 2020, https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/national-wildlife-areas/protected-conserved-areas-database.html (accessed September 22, 2021).
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