https://thenarwhal.ca Deep Dives, Cold Facts, & Pointed Commentary en-US Copyright 2026 The Narwhal hourly 1 https://thenarwhal.ca/spotted-owl-ecojustice-petition/ Wed, 26 Oct 2022 22:59:43 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=62388 The NDP government is touting efforts to save the critically endangered bird. But it continues to sanction logging in spotted owl habitat, prompting environmental groups to demand the federal government step in to save the species from extinction in Canada Sarah Cox News B.C. COP15 Endangered Species forestry logging spotted owl wildlife Photo: Province of British Columbia / Flickr A bird from the Northern Spotted Owl Breeding Program (NSOBP) near Hope, B.C. https://thenarwhal.ca/logging-deferred-bc-valleys-spotted-owls/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:03:50 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=26296 In the absence of endangered species legislation in B.C., the provincial and federal governments have announced a new ‘nature agreement’ that includes pilot projects to protect at-risk species. It starts with logging deferrals in habitat where the existence of a pair of breeding spotted owls, thought extinct in Canada, was made public in 2020 Sarah Cox News forestry Indigenous solutions species at risk spotted owl wildlife Photo: Bill Stevenson / Cavan A Northern Spotted Owl, wings pointed downward, swoops through a forest in Washington State https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-last-breeding-endangered-spotted-owls-in-bc-valley-logging/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:19:01 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=22898 The federal government is legally obliged to respond to an Ecojustice petition calling for an emergency order to stop logging in the Spuzzum Valley, where two rare chicks hatched this year Sarah Cox News B.C. Endangered Species forestry spotted owl wildlife Photo: Jared Hobbs Spotted Owl Logging BC Jared Hobbs https://thenarwhal.ca/feds-asked-to-step-in-to-save-endangered-spotted-owls-from-canadian-extinction/ Wed, 08 May 2019 23:38:25 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=11336 As a UN report finds nature declining globally at unprecedented rates, Canadian groups call for plan to protect old-growth forest habitat for owls reduced from 1,000 to fewer than five in the wild Sarah Cox News environmental law extinction forestry logging SARA Species At Risk Act spotted owl wildlife Spotted Owl https://thenarwhal.ca/keepers-of-the-spotted-owl/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 22:00:06 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=8645 At the world’s first breeding centre in Langley, B.C., spotted owls are hatched in incubators, given around the clock medical care and hand fed euthanized rodents in a last-ditch effort to save the species from Canadian extinction. All the while scientists warn that the province has yet to recognize the endangered raptor as a symbol of our escalating failure to protect old-growth forests Sarah Cox In-Depth Photo Essay B.C. extinction forestry logging species at risk spotted owl wildlife Photo: Jared Hobbs spotted owl