Fees
We will be pleased to provide a response that meets your data request needs. Our organization is supported in part through fees that cover the cost of the overhead and labour to maintain our database and respond to requests.
*Please note that effective January 1, 2026, we will be increasing our data request fees for the first time in fifteen years, to cover the effects of inflation on labour and overhead costs. We thank you for your understanding.
Fees as of January 1st, 2026:
Standard request for species of conservation concern
- Area coverage = 5 km radius around a point location
- Cost: $200
- Processing time: ≤ 10 business days
Non-standard request for species of conservation concern
- Area coverage = Any area different from standard request
- Cost: $1 per km2 (Minimum $300); Up to a maximum of $2,000 for all of PEI; $10,000 for all of NB, NS, or NL; or $15,000 for all of NB, NS, and PEI.
- Processing time: ≤ 10 business days
Requests requiring all species in addition to species of conservation concern
- Area coverage = Any area
- Cost: $100 additional to above fees
- Processing time: ≤ 10 business days
Requests requiring ASAP turnaround
- Area coverage = Any area
- Cost: 75% premium surcharge to above fees
- Processing time: ≤ 2 business days
Custom biodiversity or GIS analysis and reporting
- Area coverage = Any area
- Cost: Determined based on labour required
- Processing time: Determined based on labour required
Please note that our business days are Mon - Fri, statutory holidays and December 27-31 excepted
The AC CDC does not want cost to limit use of our data for conservation and educational purposes. Non-profit and student clients unable to cover data request fees can contact our Executive Director, Sean Blaney, and we will do our best to make alternate arrangements.
Data Usage Restrictions
The AC CDC makes a strong effort to verify the accuracy of all the data that it manages, but it shall not be held responsible for any inaccuracies in data that it provides. By receiving AC CDC data, recipients assent to the following limits of use:
- Data is restricted to use by trained personnel who are sensitive to its potential threat to rare and endangered taxa.
- Data is restricted to use by the specified Data User; any third party requiring data must make its own data request.
- The AC CDC requires Data Users to cease using and delete data 12 months after receipt, and to re-submit a request for updated data if it is still required.
- AC CDC data responses are restricted to that data in our Data System at the time of the data request.
- Data is qualified as to location (Precision) and time (SurveyDate); see Data Dictionary for details.
- AC CDC data reports are not to be construed as exhaustive inventories of taxa in an area.
- The non-occurrence of a taxon cannot be inferred by its absence in an AC CDC data report.
Acknowledgement Required
The Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre grants permission to download data from this web site, on the condition that the user acknowledges both the AC CDC's collaboration, and the persons or institutions listed in the CITATION field.
