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Hungry animals that have once tasted an adult monarch butterfly leave others alone. The adult's bad taste comes from special chemicals in the milkweed that the caterpillar ate.


Species protection strategy criticized


Species protection strategy criticized
Former provincial Chief of Wildlife Conservation, Ray Demarchi, says that B.C.'s new Wildlife Management Strategy does not offer wildlife species adequate protection from clearcut logging. "Identified wildlife" are those species which require extra protection or special forest practices to ensure their survival. The new strategy allows for putting aside no more than 1 per cent of B.C.'s timber supply for species whose habitat is at risk from logging. Demarchi says that it does not offer enough protection for the identified wildlife and does nothing at all for those species which have not been classified as threatened but could still be negatively affected by habitat destruction.

The Vancouver Sun

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