The federal government should act quickly to better protect critical habitat from old-growth logging and destruction, environmental groups said Tuesday, as they hailed a court decision touching on at-risk migratory bird protections.
A Federal Court judge sided last week with the environmental groups who alleged Canada’s environment minister had too narrowly interpreted certain federal protections for at-risk migratory birds.
A lawyer for the environmental law charity Ecojustice, which represented two conservation groups in court, called the decision, “a win for the endangered and threatened birds that call Canada home, whether they nest in old-growth trees in British Columbia or on islands in Atlantic Canada.