In the spirit of cooperation of the Accord, the Government of Ontario has given permission to the Government of Canada to adopt the Recovery Strategy for the Drooping Trillium (Trillium flexipes) in Ontario (Part 2) under Section 44 of the Species at Risk Act (SARA). [...] The Minister of the Environment is the competent minister under SARA for the Drooping Trillium and has prepared the federal component of this recovery strategy (Part 1), as per section 37 of SARA. [...] The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (now the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry) led the development of the attached recovery strategy for the Drooping Trillium (Part 2) in cooperation with Environment Canada. [...] The recovery strategy sets the strategic direction to arrest or reverse the decline of the species, including identification of critical habitat to the extent possible. [...] The Government Response Statement for the province of Ontario lists the following goal for the recovery of the Drooping Trillium in Ontario: • The government’s goal for the recovery of the Drooping Trillium is to maintain self- sustaining populations at existing locations and encourage natural increases in population levels within the species’ current range in Ontario.