Endangered Species

ENDANGERED SPECIES are species of plants, animals and plant communities considered to be in imminent danger of extinction or extirpation in BC. BC has no endangered species act, but there are some existing laws that could legally protect some species: the Wildlife Act, the ECOLOGICAL RESERVES Act, the Fish Protection Act and the Forest Practices Code Act. Only once in the past 20 years has BC's Wildlife Act been used to designate critical habitat for an animal species (the Vancouver Island...

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