Auditor General Says BC Is Failing to Protect Critical Wildlife Habitat
The gap between the potential and the reality of ‘platform’ work is disturbingly wide, argues filmmaker Shannon Walsh. Better strategic direction and greater involvement of Indigenous groups is needed if the province is to effectively manage lands under its conservation lands program, auditor general Michael Pickup warned. As the province with the greatest diversity of native fish and wildlife, B.C.’s conservation lands program is an important part of the effort to conserve “some of the most biologically productive estuaries, wetlands and grasslands in the province,” according to th...
Source: thetyee.ca
