Canada’s federal, provincial, and territorial governments released the 2020 Biodiversity Goals and Targets for Canada in response to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity’s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its global Aichi Biodiversity Targets. A key target was the conservation of 17 per cent of Canada’s terrestrial areas and inland water and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, through networks of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures.