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The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Invasive alien species in Canada indicator reports the number of federally regulated invasive alien species that have become established in Canada since 2012. Species are considered "established" when a reproducing population exists in Canada and any eradication efforts have been abandoned. Regulation of potentially invasive species is intended to prevent their introduction and establishment in Canada. Species are added to the list of regulated species based on an analysis of risk. The indicator reports on species establishment since January 2012. With the implementation of the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy, this type of information began to be collected consistently across multiple programs, allowing information to be combined for the first time into a single indicator despite the varying approaches used to control different groups of invasive alien species. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for data sources and details on how those data were collected and how the indicator was calculated. Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators - Home page: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators Supplemental Information Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators - Home page: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators Supporting Projects: Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI)

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Data table – French (CSV; 1.1 kB)	CSV		https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/eccc/documents/csv/cesindicators/invasive-alien-species/2024/especes-exotiques-envahissantes.csv
Data table – English (CSV; 0.96 kB)	CSV		https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/eccc/documents/csv/cesindicators/invasive-alien-species/2024/invasive-alien-species.csv
Invasive alien species in Canada – English	HTML		https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/environmental-indicators/invasive-alien-species.html
Data sources and methods – English	HTML		https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/environmental-indicators/invasive-alien-species.html#DSM
Invasive alien species in Canada – French	HTML		https://www.canada.ca/fr/environnement-changement-climatique/services/indicateurs-environnementaux/especes-exotiques-envahissantes.html
Data sources and methods – French	HTML		https://www.canada.ca/fr/environnement-changement-climatique/services/indicateurs-environnementaux/especes-exotiques-envahissantes.html#DSM

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