Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS)
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Dominion Wildlife Service
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1947-
History
The Canadian Wildlife Service or CWS (French: Service canadien de la faune), is a Branch of the Department of Environment and Climate Change Canada, a department of the Government of Canada. November 1, 2012 marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Service (originally known as the Dominion Wildlife Service).[1]
The Canadian Wildlife Service has been Canada's national wildlife agency since 1947.