The federal Environment Minister acknowledges need for emergency order after petition to protect endangered northern spotted owl and their habitat in old-growth forests of southern B.C.
The federal Environment Minister has determined the northern spotted owl is facing imminent threats to its survival, setting the stage for an emergency order that could stem a decades-long decline.to environmental law group Ecojustice, follows a petition Ecojustice submitted last year. It called on the federal government to recommend an emergency order under the Species at Risk Act to protect owls and their habitat.
A spotted owl recovery strategy was announced in 2006, when there were fewer than two dozen spotted owls left in the wild, but that strategy did not identify critical habitat, Ecojustice said in its 2022 petition. In his assessment, described in the Feb. 15 letter to Ecojustice, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault determined that any resumption of logging activities in the Spuzzum Creek and Utzlius Creek watersheds posed an imminent threat to the species and that complete or partial logging of another 2,500 hectares, spread out over a patchwork of spotted owl habitat, would make it difficult for the species to recover.
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