As spring blooms in British Columbia, the brilliant orange-and black pattern of a monarch butterfly’s wing and the distinctive cream cap on a black male bobolink songbird are a rare sight.
Both remain on B.C.’s endangered species list, a status that hasn’t changed for many at-risk species in the province in more than two decades, says a new study from Simon Fraser University.
The study, published March 23 in the journal “Facets,” looked at the B.C. government’s list of threatened, special-concern and secure species and found only 14 species saw genuine improvement in their status between 2008 and 2025….