Sensitive Ecosystems in 2018 key performance measure

The Sensitive Ecosystem Inventory (SEI) identifies and maps regional ecosystems to support the use of ecological data in decision making. Sensitive Ecosystems are ecologically fragile, rare, or at-risk and include wetlands, older forests and woodlands. The SEI also includes Modified Ecosystems that have ecological value and importance to biodiversity, such young forests. The condition, landscape context, and size of each ecosystem is evaluated to provide an overall quality rating. The first SEI was released in 2013 based on 2009 imagery. This is the first GIS inventory of ecologically significant lands for the region. In 2018, an update was released based on 2014 imagery.