Rich Wildlife Poor Protection

The urgent need for strong legal protection of British Columbia's biodiversity

Rich Wildlife, Poor Protection investigates 3,672 native and regularly occurring terrestrial and freshwater species and subspecies in B.C. This is the first Canadian study to report endangerment below the species level. The report concludes that in order to safeguard the province's unusually abundant biodiversity, the B.C. government must set in place a stronger set of policies to protect species and their habitat, as well as introduce a robust provincial Endangered Species Act.

Published in 2007