Paov, will you help us save the Summit Lake toads?

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Published on Thursday, 02 June 2016 15:15

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Will you help us defend BC's wildlife?

Dear Paov,

People in BC know we live in a special place with unparalleled wilderness and wildlife. Where else in the world can you find grizzly bears, killer whales and phantom orchids? These species are part of our remarkable wildlife heritage but they are also sadly just a handful of the 1,900 + species at-risk in BC – a province with no endangered species law.

We need to change that – and we will.

There is no better example of BC needing a endangered species law than the plight of the diminutive Western toad near Nakusp, BC (100 km north of Nelson as the crow flies.) The Western toad is a species at-risk in BC. As toad populations across North America decline because of loss of habitat, climate change and invasive species, the toad population in BC becomes even more important. Nowhere is this truer than Summit Lake near Nakusp.

Each summer over a million toadlets migrate from Summit Lake across a dangerous highway into forested habitat, where they forage for four or more years until becoming adults and returning to Summit Lake to breed. Numerous government bodies including the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI) have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into building a “toad tunnel” to ensure safer passage for these at-risk amphibians. MoTI has even stated that the Summit Lake toad migration is “among the great wildlife migrations in the world.”

But the BC government has turned around and allowed logging in the toads’ core forested habitat even though the toads are found everywhere in the area to be logged – on the logging roads, in the forest and even under logging equipment! Read the Vancouver Sun story to find out more.

Saving the Western toad is important, just as it is important as protecting grizzly bears, American badgers, western bumble bees and southern mountain caribou and the other 1,900 species at-risk in BC. That’s why we have released our new report, Defend BC’s Wildlife, which is all about understanding the risks to our wildlife and how we can take real steps to safeguard them.

We can’t fight this battle valley by valley, what we need to do is have the provincial government introduce a BC endangered species law. A law that is based on science and that will protect the habitat that endangered species need to survive and thrive now and into the future.

In this report you can find out:

• How we reached a species-at-risk crisis in BC.
• The number one threat to species in our province.
• What threatened plants and animals need to rebound and thrive.
• What people in Nakusp, BC are doing to protect a “world-famous wildlife migration” threatened by logging.

Please take a moment to write your letter to the BC Premier to stop logging plans in Western toad habitat in Nakusp today!

Thanks for standing up for BC’s at-risk wildlife.

For the wild,

Gwen Barlee | National Policy Director
Wilderness Committee

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