Mission Restoration Data Submission

1DISCLAIMER

2PERSONAL / ORGANIZATION INFORMATION

3DATA UPLOAD

Welcome to the Mission Restoration Data Submission form Thank you for contributing to Mission Restoration. Your submission of restoration data supports Canada's restoration goals under the Global Biodiversity Framework, the Freshwater Challenge, and the Bonn Challenge. Restoration is the process of actively managing the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged or destroyed (Convention on Biological Diversity Target 2.)

Before you begin

This form will take approximately 15 minutes (per project) to complete.

You may submit aggregated data if applicable.

We are collecting data from 2020 to the present.

Projects must be at least five (5) hectares or larger. If submitting aggregated data, the combined area must be at least 5 hectares.

Examples of projects that qualify for Mission Restoration:

Artificial regeneration: planting, seeding, etc.

Natural regeneration: reducing the source of degradation, restoring natural flooding regimes (removing dams or barriers, creating wetlands), etc.

Creation of wild gardens/yards for native species.

Projects that range from repairing ecosystem function to initiating native recovery to fully recovering native ecosystems.

Examples of projects that that do not qualify for Mission Restoration: Any restoration project that is part of legally required mitigation or offsets under Canadian or provincial legislation as a condition of approval for planned environmental damage at another location. For example, habitat mitigation approved under Canada's environmental assessment process or habitat banking approved under the Fisheries Act.

Data privacy and sharing

We respect your privacy and are committed to handling your data responsibly.

Your data will be securely stored by WWF-Canada and will only be shared with Environment and Climate Change Canada in a summarized format as outlined in our Data Sharing Agreement

We will share the analysis of collected data with all contributors to ensure transparency and collective learning.

Need assistance? If you have any questions or experience difficulties accessing the form, please reach out to us at [email protected]. If you prefer to submit your data in an Excel sheet, click here.

These metrics were compiled using the following resources along with technical support from Environment and Climate Change Canada: Metrics from Global Biodiversity Framework Monitoring Framework: Restoration Barometer: Guide for Governments  Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration Hold big business to task on ecosystem restoration  Canada's Domestic Biodiversity Monitoring Framework 

Personal Detail

Please note, this details will be auto-filled into the agreement that will be signed in the subsequent steps.

Name(Required)

First Last

Name of the Organization(Required)

Your Title(Required)

Organization's Address(Required)

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country

Email(Required)

Data Detail

Date of Submission(Required)

MM slash DD slash YYYY

Lead entity

Organization/Community Type

Municipalities

Academia

NGOs

Industry

Indigenous organizations

Other

Organization Contact person

Organization Contact person’s email

Project Information

Please identify project locations

Sub watershed if known/nearest municipality/location coordinate if it can be disclosed

Please identify the type of habitat this project is restoring.

Coasts and Mangroves

Deserts and semi-deserts

Farmlands and mixed used areas

Forests and woodlands

Grasslands, shrublands and savannahs

Peatlands

River streams, lakes and wetlands

Urban areas

Other (e.g. polar, alpine, artificial wetlands, anthropogenic shorelines)

What year when restoration action was first performed and the year when the last major restoration action was performed.

Restoration Project Status

In preparation: enabling environment, funds committed, area gazetted for restoration, activities have not yet begun, and impacts of restoration may not yet be measurable.

In progress: ongoing restoration activities and depending on the time that the activities have been ongoing, impacts may start to be measurable.

Post-completion monitoring: restoration activities completed and efforts in place to monitor the restoration results.

Mix: multiple projects with different status

If reporting aggregated data with multiple status, choose mix Areas with the status “in progress” and “post-completion” will be reported as “area under restoration”. "

Please identify Area (km2) being restored by project.

If the project is restoring riverine habitat, please identify the length of waterway restored. (Km)

Please identify amount of Carbon Sequestered by 2030 and 2050 f (tonnes CO2e; if known)

If you provide an estimate of carbon sequestered, please describe the methodology being used.

Please identify total number of native hardwood trees planted

Please identify total number of native softwood trees planted

Please identify total number native shrubs planted

Please identify total number of forb/grass/sedge plugs planted

Weights of seeds planted (Kgs)

Please identify the volume(m3 )/weight (kg) of invasive species that were addressed in the project, if there were any

Please list the scientific names of key species directly benefitting from the restoration work and please indicate the reasons for focusing on named species.

Please identify what activities have resulted in the need for restoration

Please identify the number of FTE jobs created through the planning and implementation of the restoration project

Please identify the number of volunteers that contributed to this project if there is any

Please describe the level of Indigenous engagement in planning and implementing the restoration project.

List of methods of Indigenous engagement: Indigenous Benefiting, Indigenous informed, Indigenous Partnerships and Indigenous-led

Does the restoration project contribute to a multi-stakeholder restoration plan?

Yes

Is the project part of legally required mitigation or offsets under Canadian or Provincial legislation as a condition of approval for planned environmental damage at another location?

Yes

For example, habitat mitigation approved under Canada's environmental assessment process or habitat banking approved under the Fisheries Act. If so, the project will not be counted in Mission Restoration.

How many Indigenous rightsholders or community stakeholders groups are engaged in the restoration project(s)?

Please indicate the specific indicators being monitored and where they are being reported.

Please indicate whether the restoration project is occurring within a Key Biodiversity Area (KBA), Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs), or designated Protected Area

Are water qualities being measured?

Yes

Describe how the project contributes to the following four elements of connectivity: movements of organisms, biogeochemical changes, genetic flow, and human access to culturally important sites

Please identify whether funding for your project came from public, private, philanthropic or some other source.

Public

Private

Domestic

Philanthropic

Other

Please provide the habitat distributional range for target species or habitat. (Km2)

Please list any ecosystem processes the restoration project is seeking to recover.

For example: Nutrient flow, succession,

Will this site be stewarded/managed in the long-term? If so, for how many years

Please identify the number of community members engaged in the restoration project

Which one of these elements of structural diversity is the restoration project(s) addressing?

Demographic stages

Trophic levels

Vegetation strata, and spatial habitat Diversity

Other

Any additional comments or info you want to share ?

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This section is for submitting your data in an Excel sheet format.

Lead entity

Organization/Community Type

Municipalities

Academia

NGOs

Industry

Indigenous organizations

Other

Organization Contact person

Organization Contact person’s email

File

Max. file size: 50 MB.

Comments

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Welcome to the Mission Restoration Data Submission Form

Thank you for contributing to Mission Restoration. Your submission of restoration data contributes to Canada’s restoration goals under the UN Global Biodiversity Framework, Freshwater Challenge, and the Bonn Challenge.

Before You Begin

This form will take approximately 15 minutes per project to complete.
You may submit aggregated data if applicable.
We are collecting data from 2020 to the present.
Projects must be at least 5 hectares or more, if submitting aggregated data, the combined area must be at least 5 hectares.

Data Privacy & Sharing

We respect your privacy and are committed to handling your data responsibly.
Your data will be securely stored by WWF-Canada and shared only in aggregated form with Environment and Climate Change Canada as outlined in our Data Sharing Agreement.
We will share the analysis of collected data with all contributors to ensure transparency and collective learning.

Need Assistance?

If you have any questions or experience difficulties accessing the form, please reach out to us at [email protected].

If you prefer to submit your data in an Excel sheet, click here

Personal Detail

Data Detail

Project Information

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This section is for submitting your data in an Excel sheet format.

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