This audit focuses on whether Environment and Climate Change Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and Parks Canada identified critical habitat for species at risk to the extent possible based on the best available information. The audit also focuses on whether Environment and Climate Change Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and Parks Canada monitored the implementation of conservation actions for critical habitat on federal land. Lastly, it looked at whether Fisheries and Oceans Canada evaluated whether applicants minimized impacts to species at risk before issuing authorizations and permits.