The Species Status Advisory Committee (SSAC) was established under the Endangered Species Act.  The SSAC’s role is to review and recommend to the Minister of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture designations and re-designations of species based on the best scientific knowledge available, and on traditional and local ecological knowledge about the species.

• Species Status Advisory Committee regulations
• Annual Reports
• Species Status Reports

SSAC Seeking Expressions of Interest

The SSAC is currently looking for authors to write status reports for the following species:

Group	Common Name	Latin Name	*Status
Lichen	Limestone Sunshine Lichen	Vulpicida juniperina	Seeking author

*This contract is subject to budgetary considerations and may include associated fieldwork/inventories to be completed to support status report preparation.

The SSAC encourages anyone with potential interest in preparing a status report for any of the following species to forward their expression of interest (EOI) to the SSAC at:  SSACSecretariat@gov.nl.ca.

Group	Common Name	Latin Name	Status
Vascular Plant	Drummond’s Mountain Avens	Dryas drummondii	Seeking EOI
Vascular Plant	Wood Sorrel	Oxalis montana	Seeking EOI

The SSAC maintains priority lists of taxa that are used to determine the expression of interest list.

For further information, please contact:
Department of Forestry, Agriculture and Lands – Wildlife Division
SSACSecretariat@gov.nl.ca
Telephone: (709) 637-2025