Citizen scientists have documented more than 300 sightings of the rare robin-sized seabird, which raises its chick after laying a single egg on massive moss covered tree branches in the old-growth forests on southwestern Vancouver Island.
Birders and biologists are banding together to urge the B.C. government to protect ancient forests on southwestern Vancouver Island in a bid to save threatened marbled murrelet nesting sites.
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A UBC prof has had her bid for a judicial review of provincial gate authorizations blocking access to threatened bird habitat near Fairy Creek struck down.
An environmental law group is taking the B.C. government to court in an effort to end road closures that it says prevent scientists and researchers from studying wildlife in the Fairy Creek area of Vancouver Island.