<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2026-02-26" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-02-26" lims:current-date="2026-03-02" lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556929" lims:id="1556929" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SI" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556930" lims:id="1556930"><InstrumentNumber>SI/2026-3</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>11</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>3</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556931" lims:id="1556931"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">SPECIES AT RISK ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556932" lims:id="1556932">Order Acknowledging Receipt of the Assessments Done Under Subsection 23(1) of the Species at Risk Act (American Marten, Newfoundland Population and Six Other Wildlife Species)</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2026-161</OrderNumber><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>2</MM><DD>26</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556933" lims:id="1556933"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556934" lims:id="1556934" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, acknowledges receipt, on the making of this Order, of the assessments done under subsection 23(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5558_hq_1720626017">a</FootnoteRef> by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) with respect to the wildlife species set out in the schedule to this Order.</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5558_hq_1720626017" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2002, c. 29</Text></Footnote></Provision></Order><Schedule lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556935" lims:id="1556935" bilingual="no" spanlanguages="no"><ScheduleFormHeading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556936" lims:id="1556936"><Label>SCHEDULE</Label></ScheduleFormHeading><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556937" lims:id="1556937" level="1"><TitleText>Threatened Species</TitleText></Heading><BilingualGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556938" lims:id="1556938"><TitleText>Arthropods</TitleText><BilingualItemEn>Moth, Dusky Dune (<Language xml:lang="la">Copablepharon longipenne</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Noctuelle sombre des dunes</BilingualItemFr></BilingualGroup><BilingualGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556940" lims:id="1556940"><TitleText>Reptiles</TitleText><BilingualItemEn>Foxsnake, Eastern (<Language xml:lang="la">Pantherophis vulpinus</Language>) Carolinian population</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Couleuvre fauve de l’Est population carolinienne</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Foxsnake, Eastern (<Language xml:lang="la">Pantherophis vulpinus</Language>) Great Lakes / St. Lawrence population</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Couleuvre fauve de l’Est population des Grands Lacs et du Saint-Laurent</BilingualItemFr></BilingualGroup><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556943" lims:id="1556943" level="1"><TitleText>Special Concern</TitleText></Heading><BilingualGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556944" lims:id="1556944"><TitleText>Arthropods</TitleText><BilingualItemEn>Clubtail, Skillet (<Language xml:lang="la">Gomphurus ventricosus</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Gomphe ventru</BilingualItemFr></BilingualGroup><BilingualGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556946" lims:id="1556946"><TitleText>Mammals</TitleText><BilingualItemEn>Marten, American (<Language xml:lang="la">Martes americana atrata</Language>) Newfoundland population</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Martre d’Amérique population de Terre-Neuve</BilingualItemFr></BilingualGroup><BilingualGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-02-26" lims:enacted-date="2026-02-26" lims:fid="1556948" lims:id="1556948"><TitleText>Plants</TitleText><BilingualItemEn> Gentian, Victorin’s (<Language xml:lang="la">Gentianopsis virgata</Language> ssp. <Language xml:lang="la">victorinii</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Gentiane de Victorin</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Rue-anemone, Eastern False (<Language xml:lang="la">Enemion biternatum</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Isopyre à feuilles biternées</BilingualItemFr></BilingualGroup></Schedule></Regulation>