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The B.C. Nature Trust & Kootenay Lake Ospreys

The Nature Trust started buying key wildlife habitat with a small amount of money left over from a Canadian Centennial grant. Since then, the trust has acquired thousands of hectares of critical habitat. It has no income source now but does not touch its principal; spending only the interest. The Osprey story tells how populations of this big fish hawk have returned to great abundance on Kootenay Lake. Numbers around North America fell sharply due to DDT residues. As they increased in the Kootenays a decline in nutrient levels caused great decline in the food source fishes used by ospreys. But they are such efficient predators they appear able to get what they need from a fishery reduced to a remnant of former abundance.

Swan Lake (B.C.) ; Cowichan River Land District (B.C.) ; Boundary Lake (B.C.) ; Kootenay Lake (B.C.) ; McQueen Slough (B.C.) ; Bummers Flats ; Roderick Haig-Brown Park (B.C.) ; Robson Bight (B.C.) ; Buttertubs Marsh (B.C.) ; Botanical Beach (B.C.)

Moving Image

English

UBC VT 2160.1/095; Westland_08_11

Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives. Halleran Video Collection. UBC VT 2160.1/095

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

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