Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (ACCDC)

President's Cottage, Mt Allison University
146 Main Street
Sackville, NB
E4L 1A8
Phone: (506) 364-2656
http://www.accdc.com/

Profile

The ACCDC aims to be an authoritative and reliable source for comprehensive, accurate and objective information on Atlantic Canada`s natural heritage, with principal focus on the species and ecological communities in our region that are globally, nationally or provincially rare in occurrence and, in some cases, endangered at one or more of these levels.

The Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (Atlantic CDC) is located on the Mount Allison University Campus in Sackville, New Brunswick, and has a satellite office in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

Environmental Commitment

The Atlantic CDC maintains comprehensive lists of plant and animal species, with a rarity rank and legal status for each. These lists, the result of collaboration with regional experts, aid the development of sub-national rarity ranks (S-ranks). To date, the Atlantic CDC has compiled S-ranks for most vascular plant and vertebrate animal species and for some non-vascular plant and invertebrate species.

Although continually increasing, the Atlantic CDC presently has over 40,000 records of extremely rare to uncommon species in the Atlantic region, with over 8,000 for New Brunswick, 6,000 for Nova Scotia, 2,000 for Prince Edward Island, 6,500 for Newfoundland, and 60 for Labrador.

The Atlantic CDC also maintains biological and other types of data (information sources, professional contacts, data requests, etc.) in a variety of linked databases. For information about these, please contact our Data Managers, Stefen Gerriets in the Maritimes, or Meherzad Romer in Newfoundland & Labrador.

Social Commitment

Mission:

To assemble and provide objective and understandable data and expertise about species and ecological communities of conservation concern, including those at risk, and undertake field biological inventories to support decision-making, research, and education in Atlantic Canada.

The CDC concept and methods were introduced by The Nature Conservancy in the early 1970s. The first Canadian CDC was founded in Quebec in 1988. The Atlantic CDC was initiated as a pilot in 1997, became a member of NatureServe in 1998, incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1999.

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Resources > Ecosystems, Wildlife & Biodiversity > Research & Academia (Education) > Education/Research Centres (Centers)
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