Canadian Marine Protected Area Audit for 2025 and 2030 Targets

Canada's Office of the Auditor General published an audit report in April 2026 assessing whether federal departments were on track to protect 25% of marine and coastal ecosystems by 2025 and plan for 30% protection by 2030. The report focuses on the performance of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Parks Canada, and Environment and Climate Change Canada. It is available in PDF and HTML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze government progress toward marine conservation targets based on the 25% and 30% goals mentioned.
• Benchmark departmental performance for environmental accountability based on the audit of three federal agencies.
• Study planning frameworks for ecologically representative protected areas based on the criteria of biodiversity significance.
• Inform policy development for coastal ecosystem management based on the audit's findings and recommendations.

Strengths

• Report is an official audit from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, an authoritative source.
• Explicitly addresses two concrete conservation targets: 25% by 2025 and 30% by 2030.
• Focuses on three specific federal departments: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Parks Canada, and Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• Data is presented as a report (PDF/HTML), not as structured data, limiting direct machine-readability.

Provenance

Source

Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada

Collection Method

Government audit and performance review.

Time Range

Audit period leading up to 2025 and planning for 2030.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 16:35:12.766306; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Marine and coastal ecosystems of Canada.