Fig. 2

Overview of CAN-SAR: a database of Canadian Species at Risk information. The database includes data extracted from 1146 documents relating to 594 wildlife species (i.e. species or designatable units). Documents included status reports (purple), recovery strategies (green) or management plans (yellow). (a) Number of wildlife species with each document type included in the database classified into 12 taxonomic groups. (b) Distribution of publication dates by document type. (c) Prevalence of 11 IUCN Level 1 threat classes for wildlife species by document type. (d) Number of wildlife species where recovery documents specify each recovery action type (outreach and stewardship, research and monitoring, habitat management, and population management).