UNESCO Biosphere Reserves are environment-protected scientific-research institutions of international status that are created with the intent for conservation in a natural state the most typical natural complexes of biosphere, conducting background ecological monitoring, studying of the surrounding natural environment, its changes under the activity of anthropogenic factors.
Biosphere Preserves are created on the base of nature preserves or national parks including to their composition territories and objects of other categories of nature-preserving fund and other lands as well as including in the established order the World Network of Biosphere Reserves in the UNESCO framework "Man and the Biosphere Programme".
List of Biosphere Reserves Canada's 18 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves encompassing a total area of . PDF
NamePhoto LocationEstablished Area (ha)Description Beaver Hills 2016 159,560 Bras d'Or Lake 2011 356,788 Protects the estuarine system of Bras d'Or Lake Charlevoix 1988 1,290,000 Clayoquot Sound 2000 349,947 Protects an intact coastal forest ecosystem on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Frontenac Arch 2002 220,973 Fundy 2007 432,310 Georgian Bay 2004 347,270 Lac Saint-Pierre 2000 650,490 Long Point 1986 40,600 Manicouagan-Uapishka 2007 5,480,000 Mont Saint-Hilaire 1978 1,100 Mount Arrowsmith 2000 118,592 Niagara Escarpment 1990 194,555 Redberry Lake 2000 112,200 Riding Mountain 1986 1,331,000 Encompasses Riding Mountain National Park and twelve surrounding municipalities. Southwest Nova 2001 1,546,374 Tsá Tué 2016 9,331,300 Waterton 1979 66,761 Encompasses Waterton Lakes National Park and two surrounding municipalities.
See also Wildlife of Canada List of World Heritage Sites in Canada
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