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Species
 Across Canada, habitat loss, pollution, foreign invaders, climate change, and unsustainable harvesting have pushed over 500 species dangerously
close to extinction. Species of every description, from lichens to leatherback turtles, whooping cranes to wood bison are at risk.
On the good news front, the peregrine falcon and the sea otter have made a comeback. Less positively, last April the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) assessed 18 new
species as being at risk of extinction in Canada, including the black-footed albatross, basking shark and eastern flowering dogwood.
 WWF-Canada’s Species Program aims to: tackle global trade in endangered species through our international TRAFFIC program; fund research
into species at risk in Canada through our Endangered Species Recovery Fund; and reduce the effects of climate change on species, especially on northern species such as polar bears.
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